From: Christian Kujau <evil@g-house.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown?
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:51:10 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <402A415E.6010307@g-house.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se>
Mikael Pettersson wrote:
| We're considering buying a G5 for porting a compiler/runtime-system
| project to PPC and eventually PPC64.
|
| The question is, will Linux ever support a 64-bit user-space
| on the G5? From my reading of arch/ppc and arch/ppc64, the
| differences seem major so I'm not holding my breath, but perhaps
| there is hope.
|
| Or should we just treat the G5 as a faster 32-bitter?
|
there was a thread called "XServe G5 and Linux ?" on this list a few
days ago, maybe this helps answering your questions.
Christian.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-11 14:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-11 14:09 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown? Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-11 14:51 ` Christian Kujau [this message]
2004-02-11 15:33 ` tom_gall
2004-02-11 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-11 22:26 ` Anton Blanchard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-12 7:47 Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-12 7:49 Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-28 23:16 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-01 22:38 ` linas
2004-03-01 23:42 ` Albert Cahalan
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