From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:26:40 +1100 From: Anton Blanchard To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown? Message-ID: <20040211222640.GA25922@krispykreme> References: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se> Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: > 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. Its done, the more important question is when you will port perfctr to 970 :) > Or should we use some other OS than Linux :-( Definitely not :) Anton ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/