At Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:24:14 +0200, Andreas Jochens wrote: > There is already an inofficial buildd for the ppc64 architecture > running for 'unstable'. The respective ppc64 package archive is located at > > deb http://debian-ppc64.alioth.debian.org/gcc4 unstable main > > and almost 95% of all source packages from 'unstable' have already been > compiled for the ppc64 architecture.
Indeed - if we put this thought forward, we'll reach to the whole native ppc64 support of all packages. BTW I think supporting all binary packages as 64bit native does not have much sense - most packages do not use such large memory space, and even they run slower than 32bit binaries. This is because I would like to introduce (ex:) Features flags. > A small number of packages still need some minor patches > to make this work, notably 'glibc' (see #301438 - the patch in that > bug is outdated, but I could supply an updated patch for this). I didn't put your patch because the native ppc64 support was not adopted, from the discussion that was done in debian-powerpc lists. If your patch does not have any impact, please send your latest version to me. > With this setup, the ppc64/powerpc situation would become very similar > to the amd64/i386 situation and the same solution for multiarch/biarch > support could be used for both cases. Yes. The current partial support for biarch imposes various modifications on package maintainers. Such method will not be spereaded - debian is the large voluntary organization, reducing cost of package maintainer's load is the primal principle. Regards, -- gotom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]