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It's a soon-to-be officially supported arch. Hopefully by 2004.1 release |
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we'll have livecds and everything for it. We've got a guy from IBM |
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helping out on the port. It is meant to support IBM's pseries and |
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iseries servers (as well as PPC970 processors such as the G5). |
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-Brad |
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> Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is ppc64 considered |
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> an 'officially supported' architecture. As such a distinction occurs for |
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> other architectures, I'm just curious. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Mike |
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> (Obz) |
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> On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 21:50, Brad House wrote: |
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>> We DEFINATELY need ppc64!!!! |
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>> ppc64 is a 64bit kernel and 64bit userland |
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>> What ppc does is a 32bit kernel and a 32bit userland |
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>> What sparc64 does is a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userland |
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>> What sparc does is a 32bit kernel and a 32bit userland |
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>> See the main difference here, it's all in the userlands man! |
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>> If anyone removes ppc64 keywords, I will personally lynch you. |
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>> -Brad |
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>> > maybe i'm lost with this but is there any reason we need ppc64 ? |
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>> > couldnt something be done with ppc/ppc64 like the sparc/sparc64 merge |
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>> > -mike |
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