Hi,
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:02:04AM -0500, alex@milivojevic.org wrote:
My guess is that you'll be doing only sparc64 distribution, and not sparc32? I remember reading somewhere that 2.6 kernel was not fully ported to sparc32 (and it was uncertain if it will be ever fully ported), but that might be old news. So I guess it will be combination of 64-bit kernel and mixed 32/64-bit userland?
I don't know if anything ever comes out to public, but most propably it would be more like the current ppc64, where the userspace is mostly 32bit and the 64bit parts are from 'what is needed'. I hate summer. Even now the temperatures are high enought that i can't even dream of keeping any sparc hardware running for ón/off efforts make it progress while i do have spare minutes :/
While we are at that, is AXP port fully 64-bit (like OpenVMS and/or Digital UNIX), or you use 32/64-bit mix model (as most other 64-bit operating systems on most other 64-bit processors)?
As long a i have worked with alpha, the Linux for it has always been 'native 64bit only'. I've read that alpha would be capable of running 32bit apps too and even that the initial (non public) port of Linux to alha at DEC labs (or something) has been 32bit. While i was working with the debian installer for alpha (back -97. Google should tell :), the system was fully 64bit back then too. Now the so called CentOS-4.1beta/alpha is 64bit too.