On 06/22/2016 09:13 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: chase rayfield <cusbrar1@xxxxxxxxx> > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:20:59 -0400 > >> How well maintained is the Debian Sparc port these days and what is >> the reason for forcing upgrades to 64bit userland? >> >> Sparcv8+ 32bit code is faster as far as I know in most cases even on >> new Sparcs due to memory overhead for 64bit instructions.... > > +10000000 That won't change the fact that the majority of work is now happening on sparc64. I don't think there is a realistic chance of getting most projects spending much work on the 32-bit code since the focus is on new hardware. Either way, Debian sparc (32-bit) is completely unsupported these days and no longer receiving any security updates. So, anyone should either use Gentoo or switch over to Debian sparc64. So far I haven't seen any issues with the sparc64 port, even on my old Sun Blade 100. Alas, I haven't done any detailed benchmarking yet. Thanks, Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxx `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaubitz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 -- 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
