Is there a road map for an ibm 64 bit power architecture port?
I asked @bero about this a while ago, and I think the hold up is lack of test hardware. Application support may be another hurdle. ARM is just more popular, available, and varied. Even then, some applications will not work due to x86_64 being even more popular.
The other issue compounding the addition of new features like that, is the lack of interest in contributing and the wealth of interest in consuming. I think it’s great that people want to see the programs they use available in the repos, but we have a backlog of things that need to be addressed first.
We have some new people here interested in packaging so I think the backlog will be addressed in time. ppc64le is still not very common, so I would expect something like that to be highly experimental. Unless there are a few people willing to port existing packages in the base system over to it, and provide the builder infrastructure for abf, it will probably be a while.