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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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> > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list |
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