Re: ppc64 port

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

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?

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 - mdz