On 04-Dec-08 16:44, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:24:02PM +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > Fully unaware that others are doing a similar effort, and without contacting > the debian gcc, glibc and kernel folk, right ?
I did not know and I still do not know about any serious efforts to create a native 64 bit ppc64 port besides the porting efforts of Rafael Esp?ndola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Please point me to the appropriate places where I can find patches, packages, plans or discussions for a native 64 bit ppc64 port. > you are going the pure64 route, despite input that this may not be all that > achieving much, and ignoring the problems that surrounded the amd64-pure64 > effort. > > I am curious about your plan, are you able to run 32bit binaries in the above > scenario ? I am not planning to go the original pure64 route which only supported 64 bit binaries. My plan - if I have any definite one - is to have a native 64 bit userland, i.e. to basically compile all Debian source packages for 64 bit powerpc64-linux. However, it will also be possible to compile and run 32 bit powerpc-linux binaries. This will be achieved by using the '-enable-multilib' gcc switch and by placing the necessary 32 bit powerpc libraries in /usr/lib32. To some extent I have this setup already working on my own machine, but it will take some more work to create and test proper patches for the Debian gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0 and glibc packages to support this. Regards Andreas Jochens
