Darktable 2.6 Released With Experimental PPC64LE Support, New Modules & More

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Darktable 2.6 Released With Experimental PPC64LE Support, New Modules & More

Just in time for managing and enhancing any holiday photos, Darktable 2.6.0 was released this Christmas Eve as the latest feature release for this leading open-source RAW photography workflow software...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Darktable-2.6-Released

[rene]

Guess I need an LE PPC when I'm done with getting accelerated graphic work great gain on the PPC64 PS3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0THbSt1tFE

[elvenbone]

Every darktable release feels like a christmas present!

But I am wondering, why the PowerPC support? Is PowerPC a common architecture outside of the embedded world and super-computers? Additional hardware support is always great, but where's the use-case?

[c117152]

where's the use-case?

It's likely the dev just refactored some of the endianness specific code with OpenPOWER in mind and noticed it also compiled successfully for PowerPC so they listed it as such.