KVM support indeed sounds nice, though they advertised it already before for POWER7/PPC970 hardware... Re endianness, Linux is comfortably bi-endian and so is

KVM support indeed sounds nice, though they advertised it already before for POWER7/PPC970 hardware... Re endianness, Linux is comfortably bi-endian and so is approximately all portable Linux software. Certainly there isn't any "tremendous" difficulty, which is why I was expressing surprise at ditching the standard big-endian ppc64 userspace. When people first started floating around the little endian PPC patches in 2010 it seems the motivation was some GPU hardware (http://lwn.net/Articles/408848/ http://lwn.net/Articles/408848/) but that doesn't really make sense in this case.