Re: CFP (Call for Participation) Debian PPC64
Greets,
On Tuesday, November 11, 2003, at 08:00 AM, Albert Cahalan wrote:
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 22:07, tom_gall@mac.com wrote:
Thankfully this is not a huge undertaking as the goal is not to
create
an end to end 64 bit system. (Tho that could be done, but perhaps
that's a discussion for another day)
It's not as if the Linux apps are all 32-bit.
Due to the Alpha, Opteron, and Itanium, the
code should all be clean.
Well it's not a question of 64 bit clean code.
On PowerPC64, 32 bit applications run at full speed, no emulation.
Actually
they run a little faster than their 64 bit counterparts.
Now certainly one could do a bow to stern 64 bit Debian for ppc64 but
in the interest of getting something together quickly, I think this is
the
best route, at least short term.
You'll be running a mix if you go this route,
keeping both libraries in memory. Yuck. Some
apps need to be 64-bit. For example, procps
must be compiled as a 64-bit executable if
you want to support a 64-bit kernel.
True but it's a very short list of packages that require this. It's not
like having
build all of Gnome/KDE 32 and 64 bit!
I hope you'll agree this is a worthwhile endeavor and with your
support, debian support for PowerPC64 processors can be enjoyed by
all.
(Or at least those with or soon to have hardware ;-)
Eh, does Linux even run on Apple's new box?
Runs on my g5. Pull from ppc.bkbits.net specifically benh's
repositories.
Regards,
Tom
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