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

[Anton Blanchard]

> 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.

This is incorrect. Both RHEL and SLES are mainly 32bit userspace. Only
Gentoo is 64bit userspace.

You will take a performance hit for 64bit code, we made RHEL and SLES
32bit userspace for a reason.

Anton