On 2015-10-19 11:39, Jose E. Marchesi wrote: > > > Plus, Oracle is still actively maintaining the Linux SPARC > > port [4], so I think we have the ideal prerequisites for > > reviving the port. > > The webpage you link says "Linux for SPARC is a pure 64-bit operating > system and can only work on a 64-bit SPARC CPU". It is clearly a way to > improve the Debian sparc64 port, but not really a way to improve the > sparc one. > > To clarify: the Linux for SPARC released by Oracle is a sparc64 distro > with multilib support to build and execute V8PLUS 32 bit binaries.
Thanks for the clarification. It's therefore just like the Debian sparc64 port. It default to 64-bit binaries, but the toolchain is available to build 32-bit binaries. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net
