[Debian-ppc64-devel] Status of debian ppc64?

[Ramón Rey Vicente]

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Sven Luther wrote:

| Due to sarge release status, it is not possible at this time to
include the
| needed infrastructure changes to debian itself. This will change
quickly once
| debian/sarge is released though.

I hope.

| That said :
|
|   1) the 32bit kernel and userland should work perfectly on your imac.

I know the installer should just works, but I´m very conservative with
new hardware ;) and I dont know how is the status of the hardware
support. Builtin audio and graphics support is not present right now,
but the most important feature is the power management and related
kernel support against imacg5-hell. This info is wrong?

|   2) contrary to the amd64 case, which is handicapped by the x86
instruction
|   set to start with, the pure-64 ppc64 userland case is not a performan=
ce
|   gain, but may even represent a slight performance hit over 32bit
userland
|   running on a 64bit kernel.

Good news.

|   3) for individual applications which need 64bit userland (mostly
databases
|   or other stuff which needs large amounts of ram), the biarch
solution, as
|   used by suse and other ppc64 players except gentoo, is the way to go.

I understand it finally :)

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