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Add ppc64le (IBM POWER) architecture support#13

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Upstream-candidate PR-1 — ppc64le port (review preview)

This is the isolated ppc64le (IBM POWER) architecture support intended for upstream OpenHPC 4.x, presented as a single clean commit for review. The base branch ppc64le-review-base is the fork's merged-upstream state with the port reverted, so this diff shows ONLY the ppc64le changes — none of the upstream re-merge, validation harness, or openEuler distro work.

What it does

14 spec/build files, all ppc64le changes gated by %ifarch ppc64le (or ccache/openEuler conditionals) so x86_64 / aarch64 are unaffected: POWER9 compiler baseline, OpenBLAS TARGET=POWER9, FFTW --enable-vsx, Boost architecture=power, likwid GCCPOWER + perfevent patch, PDToolkit ibm64linux, numpy VSX3 fix (fail-loud guarded), and meta-package arch closure.

Verification (on real hardware, in podman containers)

  • All 11 touched packages compile on BOTH x86_64 and ppc64le (from-source toolchain builds).
  • No x86_64 regression: every non-gated change is a repair (404 Source0, dead warewulf split) or inert; gated changes are byte-identical to upstream on x86_64.
  • rpmspec parse + analytical audit + empirical builds all agree.

Review base is synthetic (for diff isolation); not a real merge target.

@viniciusferrao viniciusferrao force-pushed the ppc64le-cpu-port branch 2 times, most recently from 4b8498b to 56dc626 Compare June 23, 2026 21:42
Enable OpenHPC builds on ppc64le (IBM POWER) across the affected spec
files. ppc64le-specific changes are gated by %ifarch ppc64le so the
existing x86_64 and aarch64 builds are unaffected.

The POWER9 baseline (-mcpu=power9) matches the EL9+ ppc64le distro
minimum (redhat-rpm-config %__cflags_arch_ppc64le) and is forward-
compatible with POWER10/POWER11.

Verified by building every touched package on both x86_64 and ppc64le;
no regression on the existing architectures.

Sponsored-by: VersatusHPC
Signed-off-by: Vinícius Ferrão <ferrao@versatushpc.com.br>
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