On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 07:45:12PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 11:43, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:02:06PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > > Not recompiling everything saves a lot of time - and potential trouble. I've > > > > no deep knowledge of ppc64 interna, and if you'd say that it has no major > > > > drawbacks I'm really fine with "just" trying to set up kernel, binutils and > > > > certain *lib* packages. > > > > > > It doesn't have _major_ drawbacks, but it's probably better at this > > > point do a biarch yes. > > > > How can it possibly be considered better when there is presently no support > > in the packaging toolchain and no workable design has been proposed? > > How is amd64 doing ? You don't have biarch working for that ? Regardless amd64 is almost entirely being held due to not being allowed into sid which is apparently due to lack of mirror space... :( I have two amd64 systems which I would love to run Debian amd64 on whenever its ready. Chris
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