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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:49:21
Message-Id: 4223CA1A.1030104@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) by Mike Frysinger
1 Mike Frysinger wrote:
2 > On Monday 28 February 2005 08:34 pm, Olivier Crête wrote:
3 >
4 >>On Mon, 2005-28-02 at 17:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
5 >>
6 >>>linux32 -> app-emulation (or maybe sys-devel with mips32/sparc32)
7 >>
8 >>Its not emulation... just tells the OS to advertise itself as i686
9 >>instead of x86_64. and its not specifically a dev tool
10 >
11 >
12 > anyone know why ppc64 doesnt do the samething ? if you run a 32bit userspace
13 > system with 64bit kernel, uname advertizes 'powerpc64' instead of
14 > 'powerpc' ...
15 > -mike
16 >
17
18 Well with FEATURES="autoconfig", no arches should really need this
19 anymore I would think. <arch>32 was mostly used just to trick the
20 configure script into using something it knows.
21
22 Steve
23
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