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

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 12:52 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote:

> 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.

I just verified, SLES9 (latest Suse enterprise distro) has a mostly 32
bits userland. I don't have a running install of RHEL4 at hand, but I
think it's the same.

They have both 32 and 64 bits libs tho.

> The Debian ppc64 prt 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'.

I think Gentoo is the only one to be full 64 bits on ppc64, and it is a
hit on performmanes.

Ben.