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

[Andreas Jochens]

Hello,

On 05-Mar-08 10:14, Sven Luther wrote:
>   1) the 32bit kernel and userland should work perfectly on your imac.

I can confirm this. 32-bit Debian works fine on my Apple G5.
Thank you for your work on this.

>   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.

There seems to be a misunderstanding here. The large distributions 
including RedHat/Fedora, Suse/Novell and Gentoo all have separate 64-bit 
ppc64 ports, i.e. ports which have almost everything compiled in 64-bit 
mode. The only packages which are compiled as 32-bit in those ports are
the boot loader (yaboot) and OpenOffice which is not yet 64-bit clean.

The Debian ppc64 port on alioth is quite similar to the ppc64 ports of
the other major distributions. One minor difference between RedHat/Suse 
on one side and Debian/Gentoo on the other is that RedHat and Suse 
put native 64-bit libraries in '/lib64' and 32-bit libraries in '/lib', 
while Debian and Gentoo put native 64-bit libraries in '/lib' and
32-bit libraries in '/lib32'.

Regards
Andreas Jochens