On Sat, Mar 06, 2004 at 09:03:45PM +0100, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > Hi, > > > I've got Debian running on a 64 bit Sparc box. The userland is however > still 32 bits, and that restriction has been lifted in 2.4.25. Is there > any plan to recompile userland to 64 bits ? > > I'm willing to spends a few weekends recompining, but i'm not so familiar > with the dpkg system. Anyone ?
No, 64-bit is slower and larger than 32-bit userland. The only thing you need 64-bit binaries for are things like large databases where you need to address more than 4gigs of memory. You can however install libc6-dev-sparc64 and build 64-bit programs all you want. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ WatchGuard - http://www.watchguard.com/
