> Perhaps I'm missing something in the big picture, but isn't the only > difference between debian-sparc and debian-sparc64 the kernel? The userland > is 32bit in both.
Almost. For etch we had somewhat of an embarrassing situation as a few released packages won't work on 32-bit SPARC processors. We have no mechanism to alert or prevent users from installing them where they won't work, and no one working to re-add support for older CPUs. For more information, see http://wiki.debian.org/Sparc64Only If we change the toolchain to default to compiling V8plus code, we will once again have consistency in the sparc port. Then if there are people interested in maintaining a separate sparc32 port, with or without fixing the packages which won't build, they could do so. I am not interested in doing so. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
