PPC/PPC64 builders not working?

[Callum Lerwick]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:19 AM, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler at chello.at>
wrote:

> Jesse Keating <jkeating <at> redhat.com> writes:
> > To be fair, it likely requires a ppc host to be able to investigate the
> > problem to this level, and that's just not something everybody has
> > sitting on their desk.
>
> Right, and that's why PPC (and PPC64 even more so) should be a secondary
> arch.
> When the most mainstream "computer" with a PPC CPU is the PS3, you know you
> have a problem. ;-) PPC as a primary arch made sense when Macs used it, not
> anymore.


I've not the time to dig up numbers, but I'd be willing to bet that the Xbox
360, PS3, and Nintendo Wii, all PPC based, have together sold more units in
the few years they've existed than PPC Mac's Apple has sold in its entire
history. For extra points add the Game Cube in as well, it was PPC based
too.

There's an immense installed base of brand new, (As in, not obsolete) PPC
machines out there, although we're only officially allowed to run on the PS3
so far. It is rather shortsighted to discount this market.
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