On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 21:24 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > It's different for PPC. > > The PPC32 architecture isn't as crap as i386 -- it actually has a sane > number of registers. Therefore you don't really gain much by using > 64-bit userspace on a PPC64 machine; on PPC64 we still use mostly PPC32 > userspace. > > So the PPC distro contains PPC64 as a secondary architecture in the same > way that the x86_64 distro contains i386 packages. And you _can_ do the > buildinstall of that (including ppc64 packages) on a ppc32 host. > > There _is_ a 'pure ppc64' distro in rawhide, but we don't ship that -- > just as we don't ship ia64, s390, etc. > > -- > dwmw2 > I was asking about spinning the ISOs for PPC(32) on a PPC(32) -- -- Robert 'Bob' Jensen http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BobJensen Fedora Documentation Projects Release Notes Editor-in-Chief
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