Re: Adding sparc to Debian Ports
- To: "Jose E. Marchesi" <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
- Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>, Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>, debian-sparc@lists.debian.org, debian-wb-team@lists.debian.org, ftpmaster@debian-ports.org
- Subject: Re: Adding sparc to Debian Ports
- From: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
- Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 12:33:16 +0200
- Message-id: <[🔎] 20151019103316.GA28761@aurel32.net>
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On 2015-10-19 11:39, Jose E. Marchesi wrote:
>
> > Plus, Oracle is still actively maintaining the Linux SPARC
> > port [4], so I think we have the ideal prerequisites for
> > reviving the port.
>
> The webpage you link says "Linux for SPARC is a pure 64-bit operating
> system and can only work on a 64-bit SPARC CPU". It is clearly a way to
> improve the Debian sparc64 port, but not really a way to improve the
> sparc one.
>
> To clarify: the Linux for SPARC released by Oracle is a sparc64 distro
> with multilib support to build and execute V8PLUS 32 bit binaries.
Thanks for the clarification. It's therefore just like the Debian
sparc64 port. It default to 64-bit binaries, but the toolchain is
available to build 32-bit binaries.
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