On 06/22/2016 09:46 PM, David Miller wrote: > Frankly, I'm leaving all of my sparc64 machines, yes all of > them, running the unsupported 32-bit userland and will simply > live without upgrades and support. > > That's how important this is to me. I'm not arguing with you that 32-bit code is faster than comparable 64-bit code, it absolutely is. Heck, even Intel realized that a few years ago and they created the x32 ABI [1]. It didn't help though as x32 is rather unpopular among users and developers. We have a handful of users of the port in Debian which I also help to maintain, by the way. And it's not like that people have not run into memory issues when using a 32-bit process address space. 4 GiB can be easily eaten up when building something like Firefox with link-time optimization enabled, so I don't think we have a viable alternative to sparc64 in the long term. Thanks, Adrian > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI -- .''`. 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
