Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Thibaut VARÈNE
Le 5 oct. 10 à 05:32, Brian Morris a écrit : On 10/4/10, Wartan Hachaturow wartan.hachatu...@gmail.com wrote: The same reasoning as before applies -- why would you want to do this? What are the benefits compared to multiarch ppc32/ppc64? If you are using double precision floating point,

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
On Tuesday, October 5, 2010, Brian Morris cymraeg...@gmail.com wrote: If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a program compiled 32bit on a 64bit machine is much much slower (maybe 1/10). The 64bit kernel supports 64bit operation Only if the program is compile 64 bit !

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Gary Driggs
On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: I don't see how this is the reason for /bin/ls being compiled in 64-bit. True but Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, icecat other browsers, as well as several other apps would benefit from having a smaller, optional repo for

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Brian Morris
On 10/5/10, Gary Driggs gdri...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 5, 2010, at 5:59 AM, Wartan Hachaturow wrote: I don't see how this is the reason for /bin/ls being compiled in 64-bit. True but Apache, MySQL, OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice, icecat other browsers, as well as several other apps would

Re: [Debian-ppc64-devel] I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Brian Morris
On 10/5/10, Thibaut VARÈNE vare...@debian.org wrote: Are you a Gentoo user? ;^P No because I do not have the steady internet needed and besides I would wish to do custom build as a group. But I know what you mean Gentoo lets you auto build everything yourself from scratch. Its a pain besides

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-05 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 08:32:54PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a program compiled 32bit on a 64bit machine is much much slower (maybe 1/10). The 64bit kernel supports 64bit operation Only if the program is compile 64 bit ! Moreover

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project.

2010-10-04 Thread Aurelien Jarno
On Sat, Oct 02, 2010 at 12:12:00PM +0900, Hiroyuki Yamamoto wrote: Hi, Hi, I am planning to restart the ppc64 porting project using the debian-ports project in the near future. I want the ppc64 port to be joined to the official by the time debian will be released. How about this plan?

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project.

2010-10-04 Thread Wartan Hachaturow
2010/10/2 Hiroyuki Yamamoto yama1...@gmail.com: I am planning to restart the ppc64 porting project using the debian-ports project in the near future. I want the ppc64 port to be joined to the official by the time debian will be released. How about this plan? The same reasoning as before

Re: I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project

2010-10-04 Thread Brian Morris
On 10/4/10, Wartan Hachaturow wartan.hachatu...@gmail.com wrote: The same reasoning as before applies -- why would you want to do this? What are the benefits compared to multiarch ppc32/ppc64? If you are using double precision floating point, the speed of a program compiled 32bit on a 64bit

I am planning to restart ppc64 ports project.

2010-10-01 Thread Hiroyuki Yamamoto
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi, I am planning to restart the ppc64 porting project using the debian-ports project in the near future. I want the ppc64 port to be joined to the official by the time debian will be released. How about this plan? Regards, - -- Hiroyuki