[Debian-ppc64-devel] Debian running on a pSeries 6E4 - almost

Roberto Suarez Soto robe@allenta.com
Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:07:49 +0200


On Jun/01, Sven Luther wrote:

> You only really need a 64bit procutils, to avoid that the process ids
> wrappover at the 32bit boundary. This means a biarch glibc and a biarch
> libncurses. There is something being worked on from the ubuntu side, and will
> go to debian/experimental shortly after the sarge release.

	So, the future seems to be a mixed 32/64 bits environment, isn't it?
With most of the userland in 32 bits and a few selected packages in 64 bits.

> Also, i would appreciate if you could test the kernel i posted
> (http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64), and tell me how it went, i guess it
> will fail, but it is nice to have as much reports as possible, together with a
> working .config file to compare against.

	I will. I didn't before because I hadn't a system to install them to
:-) But now I think I can do it without problems.

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