> this might come from the TenFourFox or Adelie Linux corner?

MarcusC is Marcus Comstedt, who is an old Amiga acquaintance.

> The still have the focus on ppc BE.

Adelie Linux does, yes. Cameron Kaiser on the other hand, while still doing big-endian work for TenFourFox on OSX/PPC for obvious reasons, is focussing on little-endian for his Linux/POWER9 work.