On Tuesday 30 August 2005 23:36, Stephen Bennett wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:45:24 -0400 > > Olivier Crete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are comparing apples and oranges.. Most of the herd devs only > > have x86 and are not able to test amd64. That's the main difference. > > Most of the mips devs only have 64-bit big endian SGI hardware, and > aren't able to test on little-endian systems. Endianness issues are at > least as big a problem as 64-bit issues when porting software.
This architecture however has the advantage that most upstream software is written for 32 bit little endian (read x86) systems. Most times using 64bit big endian weeds out the cases where upstream developers made incorrect assumptions on the architecture. As such, when it works on such a system it's likely to work on variations too that are 32bit or little endian. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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