On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 03:40:08PM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 13:50 +0100, Andreas Jochens wrote: > > > It is of course true that some other distributions put 32 bit libraries > > in /usr/lib and 64 bit libraries in /usr/lib64. I will not follow that > > path because for a native 64 bit distribution this will lead to an > > almost empty /usr/lib directory while all the native libraries are > > in /usr/lib64. In other words this would mean to change the name of > > the well established '/usr/lib' hierarchy to '/usr/lib64'. > > This would be ugly, at least IMHO. > > I'm still rather unsure of the interest of having the ppc64 distribution > be native... Unlike amd64, as I wrote several times, there is no benefit > as in more registers etc... All you'll get is bigger/slower code...
What about power3/power4 optimized code, in opposition to generic ppc one ? Friendly, Sven Luther
