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Add support for ppc64le platform #3449

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This PR will add the support for IBM Power platform

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mkumatag commented Dec 5, 2024

cc @bdarnell

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bdarnell commented Dec 6, 2024

To be more precise, this change would publish precompiled binary wheels for ppc64le. It wouldn't change the supported status of that platform (I'm hesitant to call it "supported" just because I have no expectation of ever testing on that platform, but OTOH experience with arm64 has shown that CPU architecture doesn't make much practical difference so it should still work).

The downside of this change is that it slows down our CI builds by a lot because it runs in qemu. The qemu-based arm64 builds are already by far the slowest part of the build pipeline, and I'm looking forward to replacing those with native builders as soon as they're available on github actions.

Since ppc64le is such a small platform (and PPC users can still use Tornado, they just have to have a C compiler available to build from source), I don't think it's worth the CI expense to build for it.

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