Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-20 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Benjamin Herrenschmidt | Have we any proper way of doing multiarch setups ? The "proper" way to | do ppc64 is to have both archs libs and 32 bits userland for most | things, as ppc64 native code is slightly slower. Not at the moment, no. I'm working on multiarch and how to handle it as my mas

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-17 09:31, Bastian Blank wrote: > glibc 2.3.2 does not properly support powerpc64. This is correct. Because of this, the ppc64 Port uses glibc-2.3.4. The current Debian package has been patched to use version 2.3.4 for the ppc64 port. All patches used by the current Debian glibc which a

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Sven Luther
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:46:36AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > Hello, > > > > This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. > > > > On 05-Mar-14 16:14, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > > Also, as with the amd64 port, there i

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-17 Thread Bastian Blank
On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 09:46:36AM +1100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Have we any proper way of doing multiarch setups ? The "proper" way to > do ppc64 is to have both archs libs and 32 bits userland for most > things, as ppc64 native code is slightly slower. The packages are waiting for some

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:59 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > On 05-Mar-17 09:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Have we any proper way of doing multiarch setups ? The "proper" way to > > do ppc64 is to have both archs libs and 32 bits userland for most > > things, as ppc64 native code is slightly

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 23:59 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > On 05-Mar-17 09:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > Have we any proper way of doing multiarch setups ? The "proper" way to > > do ppc64 is to have both archs libs and 32 bits userland for most > > things, as ppc64 native code is slightly

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Andreas Jochens
On 05-Mar-17 09:46, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Have we any proper way of doing multiarch setups ? The "proper" way to > do ppc64 is to have both archs libs and 32 bits userland for most > things, as ppc64 native code is slightly slower. Detailed measurements of 32 bit vs. 64 bit code for diff

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] Call For Help - Please support the ppc64 architecture

2005-03-16 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 20:27 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Hello, > > This is a call for help from the 'ppc64' porters. > > On 05-Mar-14 16:14, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > > Also, as with the amd64 port, there is disagreement about the name. > > While ppc64 would be nicer and in line with the LSB