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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by cbmuser on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:30PM (#24742345)
> Also does seem that 32bit support is on the way out, slowly but surely.

Nah, we're currently even adding LLVM/Rust support for m68k, so don't worry, 32-bit support isn't going anywhere soon.

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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by rbanffy on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:34PM (#24742379)
Compiling Rust on a m68k machine would demand some patience.
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by monocasa on Saturday October 10, 2020 @06:49PM (#24742466)
I imagine most would be using it as a cross compiler.
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by kjs3 on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:50PM (#24742791)
That's what I'm counting on (looks at his 68030 homebrew board fondly).
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Re:PowerPC 601 Support Being Retired in Linux 5.10 – The Fir... by rbanffy on Saturday October 10, 2020 @07:28PM (#24742682)
Hopefully.
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