From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linas@austin.ibm.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 16:38:44 -0600 To: Albert Cahalan Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org Subject: Re: 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown? Message-ID: <20040301163844.G74832@forte.austin.ibm.com> References: <1078010187.2233.105.camel@cube> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1078010187.2233.105.camel@cube>; from albert@users.sourceforge.net on Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:16:28PM -0500 Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi Albert, On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:16:28PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > The 64 bits kernel allow you to run both 32 and > > 64 bits userland, the common practice is to have > > a 32 bit userland with the necessary libs to be > > able to build & run _some_ 64 bits executables. > > You'd better have a 64-bit ncurses. If you don't, > your procps will be compiled incorrectly. Data > will get truncated, mangled, etc. -- assuming you > can even run the tools at all. ? My ps, top, w all work fine: linas@panic:~> file /usr/bin/top /usr/bin/top: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped linas@panic:~> file /bin/ps /bin/ps: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped They've been running fine, with all manner of mangled and hacked 2.4 and 2.6 kernels. --linas ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/