Comment by initramfs
8 hours ago
True, and the only reason I'm partial to x86 and even some older ARMv cores is that there is a huge existing software ecosystem already available, reducing the need to develop new bootloaders and ports, as coding hours aren't free. CISC cores are treated as if they are a dirty word, but are more versatile for covering various applications.
PowerPC at least still has a living ecosystem, even from the bootloader level. GRUB can boot from an OpenFirmware system. There's also yaboot if you hate yourself. ;)
I would personally love to see more Power Systems based projects. Everything is out there, just someone has to want to do something with it.
Fedora Linux even fully supports POWER8+ little-endian systems, and Fedora KDE offers a live ISO you can install on something like a Talos Workstation.
There have been some PowerISA implementations, https://libre-soc.org/openpower/ although libre project had a major setback a few years ago:
https://lists.libre-soc.org/pipermail/libre-soc-dev/2024-Sep...