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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××××.org
Subject: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big)
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:40:14
Message-Id: 200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] sys-apps is too big by "Olivier Crête"
1 On Monday 28 February 2005 08:34 pm, Olivier Crête wrote:
2 > On Mon, 2005-28-02 at 17:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
3 > > linux32 -> app-emulation (or maybe sys-devel with mips32/sparc32)
4 >
5 > Its not emulation... just tells the OS to advertise itself as i686
6 > instead of x86_64. and its not specifically a dev tool
7
8 anyone know why ppc64 doesnt do the samething ? if you run a 32bit userspace
9 system with 64bit kernel, uname advertizes 'powerpc64' instead of
10 'powerpc' ...
11 -mike
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