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Re: Architecture baseline for Forky

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On Sun, 2025-10-26 at 20:12 +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 26, Tony Rodriguez <unixpro1970@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Why not support power 8 beyond 2028? It is still a good system and 
> > supports newer little endian.
> 
> Because that's 15 years and Debian's purpose is not to enable 
> retrocomputing projects.

I don't think that POWER8 would be considered retrocomputing given the fact
that it's just three years older than POWER9. The first x86_64 CPUs were
released in 2003 and are still supported by Debian.

If hardware released between 2014 and 2022 (last POWER8 server sold is considered
retro, then the original x86_64 hardware would be considered ancient, wouldn't it?

While POWER8 hardware reached EOL at IBM last year, I don't think this should be
decisive criteria. You can also argue that quickly raising baselines will cause
more e-waste.

> I think that waldi's proposal is quite reasonable.
> 
> Next year probably we should also talk about RISC-V, when hopefully it 
> will be more clear what hardware will be available.

Well, Ubuntu raised the baseline to RV23 before there was even any hardware available
meaning that their upcoming RISC-V releases will run on QEMU only. I don't think that
was a very clever move. In the end, software should support use case and not just be
pet projects of developers.

Adrian

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Architecture baseline for Forky Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-10-26 13:40 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2025-10-26 14:20 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 08:40 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Tony Rodriguez <unixpro1970@gmail.com> - 2025-10-26 19:40 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> - 2025-10-26 20:30 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 12:50 +0100
      Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 18:10 +0100
      Re: Architecture baseline for Forky "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> - 2025-10-27 22:40 +0100
        Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-10-29 09:00 +0100
          Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Peter Green <plugwash@debian.org> - 2025-10-30 07:00 +0100
            Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Peter Green <plugwash@debian.org> - 2025-10-30 10:10 +0100
              Re: Architecture baseline for Forky "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> - 2025-10-30 10:10 +0100
          Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-10-30 15:30 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2025-10-27 21:40 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 11:20 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 19:30 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky "Nikos Tsipinakis" <nikos@tsipinakis.com> - 2025-10-30 14:40 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Milan Kupcevic <milan@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 22:40 +0100
    Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Bastian Blank <waldi@debian.org> - 2025-10-27 23:40 +0100
      Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Marc Haber <mh+debian-release@zugschlus.de> - 2025-10-28 10:10 +0100
    Planned obsolescence ? (was: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky) Romain Dolbeau <romain@dolbeau.org> - 2025-10-28 10:00 +0100
      Re: Planned obsolescence ? (OpenBSD) Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> - 2025-11-02 23:30 +0100
      Re: Planned obsolescence ? (*BSD, Rust) David Starner <prosfilaes@gmail.com> - 2025-11-04 00:20 +0100
  Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> - 2025-12-05 00:20 +0100
  R: Re: Architecture baseline for Forky Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it> - 2026-09-07 09:20 +0200

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