On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 14:04:54 -0500 Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@gwolf.cx> wrote: > And not only 80386 needs this - There is the Sparc64 port which would > also benefit from this (http://www.debian.org/ports/sparc/#64bit). If we > had support for subarchtectures, not only would the ix86 mess be able to > be split in many flavors (i.e. strict 386, 486 and up, 686, or whatever > you fancy). And I am sure this can somehow help maintain the non-Linux > ports - NetBSD gives us the potential to bring Debian to _many_ new > platforms. No it doesn't. I've yet to even hear of an architecture that NetBSD runs on but which Linux doesn't. They just have a different definition of "architecture" than us. (ie: our "hppa" may be three or four arches to the NetBSD kernel folk.)
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