On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:28:51AM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote: > On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 00:16, David S. Miller wrote: > > Ben, don't waste your breath with Albert. > > > > Based upon my previous experiences with him, he has access to drugs > > even Hunter S. Thompson hasn't experimented with. > > Be unprofessional if you wish. I've tried to stick > to the technical defect: you've forced developers > to add special Makefile hacks to support you. > > There is a 90% fix that won't touch the ABI at all: > > 1. make -m64 the default, as x86-64 does
x86-64 runs faster and better as 64-bit. ultrasparc does not. It's only pertinent to situations where you need to: a) Access more than 4gigs of ram in a single program (like a database) b) Access parts of the kernel internals that are not best accessed as 32-bit translations (e.g. bridge-utils and procps). > 2. have the install program detect ELF32 or ELF64 That's a pain in the ass. Plus if things start being built as 64-bit by default for debian-sparc, then sparc32 users are gone. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/