Hi! On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 10:52:24 +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.14.25 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > User: debian-sp...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: sparc64 > > Please add support for a sparc64 architecture below. I know that such > support was present in dpkg at some time,
Previously the Debian sparc architecture would have erroneously matched on the GNU sparc64 triplet, but that was only in one direction. I removed that bogus match, but we've never had an actual sparc64 architecture. > so let me give some rationale for such a new port: > - Debian currently only support 64-bit kernels. > - The current userland is 32-bit, but needs a SPARC V9 CPU, which > supports 64-bit instructions. > - 32-bit toolchain is not supported anymore upstream. > - The use of > 4GB per process is not that uncommon those days, especially > in scientific computation applications. All of which seem fair to me, so I've committed locally the patch, will be on my next push. Thanks. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
