On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 07:25:05AM -0800, Shyamal Prasad wrote: > > "Gabriel" == Gabriel Paubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Gabriel> Not surprising, since *power4* means that it is a 64 bit > Gabriel> kernel, i.e., for G5 aka PPC970. > > The Debian power4 kernels in sarge still run in 32 bit mode AFAIK.
Indeed, I was not clear, sorry. What I meant is that, even if it runs in 32 bit mode, it uses features of 64 bit processors that are very different of what is available in 32 bit processors (the MMU comes to mind: different page tables, no BATs but large segments, etc...). Cheers, Gabriel