On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 07:36:10PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: > On Wed, 12 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > > > The current sparc port runs on UltraSPARC's. That's not to say that it > > is a 64bit user space. It is only a 32 bit user space, but runs none > > the less. This is the same as the current UltraPenguin and RedHat 6.0. > > There are no native 64bit sparc distributions yet (that was the > > discussion you caught). > > This is from the UltraPenguin web page: > > UltraLinux is a fast 64bit free operating system, which supports up to 1TB > of physical and another 1TB of IO memory, fully supports Linux/Sparc 32bit > binaries plus will soon support 64bit UltraLinux ELF binaries. It uses the > Visual Instruction Set for high bandwidth operations, even > older 32-bit applications take advantage of this increased performance if > they are dynamically linked. The 64-bit userland for UltraPenguin is half > done, developers have initial statically linked ELF 64-bit binaries > working. We will announce seperately the availability of this so others > can experiment with it and help us out, so please be patient. > > SO it looks like it is a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit user space.
Which is exactly what Booting the sun4u kernel from the slink bootdisk will do. -- ----- -- - -------- --------- ---- ------- ----- - - --- -------- Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian GNU/Linux OpenLDAP Dev - [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Choice of the GNU Generation ------ -- ----- - - ------- ------- -- ---- - -------- - --- ---- - --
