From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: question about sparc 64-bit user land
Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:24:16 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020126172416.GO388@blimpo.internal.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020126171545.GB11344@fefe.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020126171545.GB11344@fefe.de>
On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:16:03PM -0500, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote:
> My understanding is that there is no 64-bit user land support for
> UltraSPARC, although the kernel runs in 64-bit mode. Is that correct?
> If yes: why is that (still) so?
No, that is incorrect. Debian currenty has 64bit userland support, and I
believe Rockports does aswell. Someone on the sparclinux claims full
64bit bootstrap (including X), but that isn't really needed since 64bit
is actually slower than 32bit userland.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-26 17:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-26 17:15 question about sparc 64-bit user land Felix von Leitner
2002-01-26 17:24 ` Ben Collins [this message]
2002-01-26 17:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-27 14:11 ` CRAP in 2.4.18-pre7 Martin Dalecki
2002-01-27 16:50 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-27 17:32 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-01-27 17:53 ` root
2002-01-27 21:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-28 12:06 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-01-28 15:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2002-01-27 18:46 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-01-27 21:58 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-01-28 3:40 ` Michal Jaegermann
2002-01-26 18:07 ` question about sparc 64-bit user land Andreas Jaeger
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