On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:45:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:36:08PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:16:02PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:09:51PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > timeframe to get a ppc64 biarch toolchain in sid or even experimental ? > > > > Or > > > > should i rely on the ubuntu toolchain, and use that to upload kernels > > > > to sid > > > > in the near future ? Together with a statically built procps naturally ? > > > > > > The sid procpc works just fine with ppc64 kernel, no need to mess with > > > it at all. > > > > Oh, fine, so there is no risk of overflow of the process id. > > The process id in Linux is always 32bits, and unless you tweak > /proc/sys/kernel/pid-max the actual range used is even smaller. > > > What about the sarge procps ? > > It shouldn't be any different. I have been running ppc64 kernels with > sarge for a long time. And if there's a bug in procps somewhere where > it can't deal with some fields beeing bigger in 64bit kernels that > should be fixed in procps instead of needing another set of binaries.
Ok, fine with me, you are the expert. Did you try already the kernels and stuff i announced on : http://people.debian.org/~luther/ppc64/PPC64.README It didn't get the interest i expected, but maybe just because people didn't really notice. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
