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

[Sven Luther]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 09:07:49AM +0200, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> 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.

Indeed, and it will happen in the next 2 month or so, at most.

> > 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.

Cool. It is a bit hard for me to do this kind of stuff, since i have no access
to 64bit hardware to play with kernels on, but well.

Friendly,

Sven Luther