From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <402A415E.6010307@g-house.de> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:51:10 +0100 From: Christian Kujau MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown? References: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se> In-Reply-To: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: 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. - -- BOFH excuse #106: The electrician didn't know what the yellow cable was so he yanked the ethernet out. ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/