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From: Olivier Crete <tester@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 18:39:12
Message-Id: 1125599804.15722.18.camel@cocagne.max-t.internal
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Thu, 2005-01-09 at 19:02 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:50:11 +0200 "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò"
3 > <flameeyes@g.o> wrote:
4 > | On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:41, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
5 > | > Untrue.
6 > |
7 > | Can I have reasoning?
8 >
9 > Take a look at how sparc and mips currently handle packages which will
10 > run on some CPU kinds or ABIs but not others.
11
12 Is it just me, it seems that only sparc/mips devs want that kind of
13 change and non none of the x86/amd64 devs...
14
15 I still dont see what practical advantage that would bring to x86/amd64
16 users or developers?
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19 Olivier Crête
20 tester@g.o
21 Gentoo Developer
22 x86 Security Liaison
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Martin Schlemmer <azarah@g.o>