[Debootloaders-silo] New SILO package version available for testing

[Aurelien Jarno]

Aurélien GÉRÔME a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 08:37:11PM +0200, Ulrich Teichert wrote:
>> Will it work on sparc32 systems, too?
> 
> Sure, to my knowledge, there is no need to compile a bootloader with
> gcc -m64, except if you want it to access more than 4 GB of memory
> or if you cannot do otherwise (e.g. on alpha).
> 

OTOH, it will probably cease to work on sparc32 when the whole toolchain
will switch to SPARC v9 (ie soon).

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