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

[Andreas Jochens]

On 05-Mar-09 08:39, Anton Blanchard 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.
> 
> This is incorrect. Both RHEL and SLES are mainly 32bit userspace. Only
> Gentoo is 64bit userspace.

Have you looked at the Fedora PPC64 port? It has a 64bit userspace.

Regards
Andreas Jochens