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Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel by ndiddy on Monday September 01, 2025 @08:35PM (#45097922)
Big endian will stay around as long as IBM continues to put in the resources to provide first-class Linux support on s390x. Of course if you don’t expect your software to ever be run on s390x you can just assume little-endian, but that’s already been the case for the vast majority of software developers ever since Apple stopped supporting PowerPC.
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Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel by metaphor on Monday September 01, 2025 @10:42PM (#45098604)
> ...that’s already been the case for the vast majority of software developers ever since Apple stopped supporting PowerPC.

For better or worse, PowerPC is still quite entrenched in the industrial embedded space.

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Re:The future of 32-bit support in the kernel by ndiddy on Monday September 01, 2025 @11:00PM (#45098719)
Right, and the vast majority of software developers aren't writing software intended to run on PowerPC industrial control boards.
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