On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 11:43, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 06:02:06PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Not recompiling everything saves a lot of time - and potential trouble. > > > I've > > > no deep knowledge of ppc64 interna, and if you'd say that it has no major > > > drawbacks I'm really fine with "just" trying to set up kernel, binutils > > > and > > > certain *lib* packages. > > > > It doesn't have _major_ drawbacks, but it's probably better at this > > point do a biarch yes. > > How can it possibly be considered better when there is presently no support > in the packaging toolchain and no workable design has been proposed?
How is amd64 doing ? You don't have biarch working for that ? Regardless of biarch or not, ppc64 will require both gcc and glibc to be more recent than the current unstable 3.3. (Which is a good thing imho, getting stuck with no TLS and NPTL on ppc32 is a major pain) Ben
