On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 02:21:15PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > I've built a native gdb64 under Dapper and it works just fine. Ok; thats a useful datapoint. I'll see what patches they are using. > > A pure-64bit userland on sparc64 is an _incredibly_ _stupid_ idea. Sniff ;) > The only thing you'll get is larger binaries, worse performance, and > maybe 1 or 2 tools which work a slightly better but could be easily > fixed to work properly as a 32-bit app too. I don't disagree, but my distro is all built from source, and is a quick port from the pure 64bit x86_64 version. One glibc and a non-multilib gcc makes everything _so_ much simpler to build :) But the "speed" of the distro apps is irrelevant; the peformance of my custom massively threaded 64bit apps are the only thing that matters. I've been benchmarking a T1000 to see how it peforms against the x86_64 kit I am more used to. And I bought a pallet load of E4500's to play with, since they were almost free :) Andrew - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
