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

[Stefan Berndtsson]

Andreas Jochens <aj@andaco.de> writes:

> 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.

Yes, although not in /lib, but in /lib64, which means it coexists nicely with
Fedora PPC32 packages as well.

/Stefan