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

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Mar-08 13:39, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 08, 2005 at 01:45:41PM +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:
> > On 05-Mar-08 13:08, Sven Luther wrote:
> > > No, i believe you are wrong, or partially so at least. I mean, it may have
> > > changed in the last few month, but last this was discussed, both redhat and
> > > suse where taking the biarch approach, while gentoo goes the pure-64bit
> > > approach.
> > 
> > What exactly do you mean by 'biarch approach' vs. 'pure-64bit approach'?
> > I guess that the term 'pure-64bit approach' comes from the amd64 case.
> > The Debian amd64 'pure64' port started with a setup and toolchain which 
> > was not able to produce 32 binaries. But this is history. 
> > Since a long time the Debian amd64 port has a 'biarch' toolchain 
> > which can produce 32 bit binaries and 32 bit binaries and libraries 
> > run without problems on the amd64 'pure64' port. 
> > 
> > The ppc64 port on alioth also uses a biarch setup and toolchain. 
> > 32-bit binaries and libraries will run fine.
> 
> I think the difference is in what you run per default, 32bit vs 64bit, and if
> you have powerpc or ppc64 as arch in the packages.

RedHat/Fedora and Suse/Novell both have two different distributions:
one with 32-bit as the default (ppc) and another one with 64-bit as the 
default (ppc64).

Regards
Andreas Jochens