On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:58:00AM -0700, Joe Buck wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:00:24PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The sparc32 port has been struggling for some time. Last month Jurij > > Smakov, currently the most active Debian Sparc porter, raised the question > > if support sparc32 should be dropped for Lenny [1]. > > Fine, as long as you provide 32-bit as well as 64-bit userland. Otherwise > many programs will pay a substantial performance penalty, as pointer-heavy > programs double their memory and I/O requirements (and Sparc doesn't get > any compensating benefit the way x86-64 does from extra registers in > 64-bit mode).
I think it's going to stay 32 bit userland, just a 64 bit kernel, and maybe some selected 64 bit libraries and programs. Kurt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]