ppc64le is a pure little-endian mode that has been introduced with the POWER8 as the prime target for technologies provided by the OpenPOWER Foundation, aiming at enabling porting of the x86 Linux-based software with minimal effort.[2]
Details
These two identifiers are frequently used when compiling source code to identify the target architecture.[3]
64-bit Power and PowerPC processors are the following:
^"Gentoo Handbook: Main Page". gentoo.org. April 2, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
^"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 on IBM POWER8" (PDF). novell.com. February 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 16, 2014. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
^"GNU Autoconf 2.63 Manual, Section 15.3 Compiling For Multiple Architectures". gnu.org. September 9, 2008. Retrieved August 12, 2015.