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From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba•org>
To: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@user•it.uu.se>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists•linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown?
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 09:26:40 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040211222640.GA25922@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <16426.14204.974363.611192@alkaid.it.uu.se>



> We're considering buying a G5 for porting a compiler/runtime-system
> project to PPC and eventually PPC64.
>
> The question is, will Linux ever support a 64-bit user-space
> on the G5? From my reading of arch/ppc and arch/ppc64, the
> differences seem major so I'm not holding my breath, but perhaps
> there is hope.

Its done, the more important question is when you will port perfctr
to 970 :)

> Or should we use some other OS than Linux :-(

Definitely not :)

Anton

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-02-11 22:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-11 14:09 64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown? Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-11 14:51 ` Christian Kujau
2004-02-11 15:33 ` tom_gall
2004-02-11 22:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-02-11 22:26 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-12  7:47 Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-12  7:49 Mikael Pettersson
2004-02-28 23:16 Albert Cahalan
2004-03-01 22:38 ` linas
2004-03-01 23:42   ` Albert Cahalan

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