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Re: Adding more ppc64 buildds from the POWER cloud



On 04/05/2016 08:28 AM, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 05, 2016 at 08:19:13AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>> I was recently told by aurel32@d.o that ppc32 kernels do not run on a
>> ppc64 CPU. So if one wants to run a Debian kernel [1], we are pretty
>> much required to be running a ppc64 kernel.
>> This is the current situation with partch.d.o.
>>
>> [1] https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/powerpc/ch02s01.html.en#idp50581248
> 
> Yes but I was talking about user space.  Debian powerpc already includes
> a 64bit kernel which is required to work on 64bit machines and allow
> more than 4GB ram in the machine, but user space works just fine as
> 32bit for almost everything (might want 64 bit for postgres and such).
> 

+1

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