It's a soon-to-be officially supported arch. Hopefully by 2004.1 release we'll have livecds and everything for it. We've got a guy from IBM helping out on the port. It is meant to support IBM's pseries and iseries servers (as well as PPC970 processors such as the G5).
-Brad > > Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but is ppc64 considered > an 'officially supported' architecture. As such a distinction occurs for > other architectures, I'm just curious. > > Thanks, > Mike > (Obz) > > On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 21:50, Brad House wrote: >> We DEFINATELY need ppc64!!!! >> ppc64 is a 64bit kernel and 64bit userland >> What ppc does is a 32bit kernel and a 32bit userland >> What sparc64 does is a 64bit kernel and a 32bit userland >> What sparc does is a 32bit kernel and a 32bit userland >> See the main difference here, it's all in the userlands man! >> >> If anyone removes ppc64 keywords, I will personally lynch you. >> >> -Brad >> >> > maybe i'm lost with this but is there any reason we need ppc64 ? >> > couldnt something be done with ppc/ppc64 like the sparc/sparc64 merge >> ? >> > -mike >> > >> > >> > -- >> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> > >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >> > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
