Bug#365203: rootskel: Please support the ppc64 architecture

[stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers)]

On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 09:49:03AM +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 03:52:58AM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
  <snip/>
> > Please provide the full picture. We may re-evaluate after that.
> 
> Notice that once we are going multi-arch (probably not for etch though), the
> 64bit architecture will be called powerpc64, and not ppc64. The ppc64 effort
> is a different thing, a one-man effort by Andreas Jochens mostly, who rebuilt
> everything in a pure-64 way, and has been sending out bug reports asking for
> ppc64 support since a long time now.


Can the efforts of ppc64 and powerpc64 be combined?
Where and _why_ differ ppc64 and power64???


Cheers
Geert Stappers