Morning .. On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 02:04:54PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf 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. In my opinion, this would be the right way. Sure, this is a lot of work, but we, if we splitt the arches up into suparches, we will be able to use optimization for eg. 586/686 or on PowerPC altivec for G4 and so on. And, of course, we can keep the support 80386. Regards Jan -- .''`. Jan-Hendrik Palic | : :' : ** Debian GNU/ Linux ** | ** OpenOffice.org ** ,.. ,.. `. `' http://www.debian.org | http://www.openoffice.org ,: ..` ` `- jan.palic@linux-debian.de | ' ` `
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