cpuinfo: PPC64 support

[leitao]

Hello @Maratyszcza and team,

I would like to have PPC64 support on cpuinfo project. I was able to fork it[1], and together with some friends (Rogério and Alfredo), got it partially ported to PPC64. There are some missing things, but, at this moment, all the tests are passing.

That said, I have some questions regarding the PPC64 port:

1. Are you interested in adding PPC64 support into cpuinfo project?
2. If you kindly accept our contribution, what is the best method to contribute it?
3. Do you want to have the PPC64 support fully implemented before us trying to contribute, or, can we start the review process with what the current code, while we get the port complete.

Thank you,
Breno

[1] https://github.com/leitao/cpuinfo/

[Maratyszcza]

Hi @leitao and friends,

Thank you for working on PPC64 port!
Here're the answers to your questions:

1. I'm interested in accepting PPC64 port into cpuinfo, but don't have resources to work on it myself.
2. The preferred way of contribution is through a pull request to this repo. Your contributions must be licensed under the same license as cpuinfo (2-clause "Simplified" BSD).
3. As I expect PPC64 port to have quite a lot of code, I suggest you create PRs for a non-master branch of cpuinfo (e.g. ppc64 branch), so we can start review early. When the port is complete, we'll merge it into master.

[cdluminate]

It looks that ppc64el support is missing.

[Adesoj]

That means the ppc64 is missing

[kiplingw]

I think this is a great idea. @madscientist159 of Raptor Computing or IBM should be able to provide a test bed to experiment with.