I really don't understand why this "32-bit gone" myth is happening. It was poor wording at least. Debian doesn't even support the ancient 32-bit sparc CPUs. Modern SPARC ABIs (post 1997) require 64-bit CPUs even when running in 32-bit code, it's like x32 ABI in x86 land.
SPARCv7, SPARCv8 = old 32-bit CPUs, Linux kernel barely supports them now SPARCv9 = modern (post 1997) 64-bit CPUs, Linux and GCC supports them just fine. And just so we can finally kill this rumor dead: http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.8.2/gcc/SPARC-Options.html#SPARC-Options GCC still supports the 32-bit ABI: With -mv8plus, GCC generates code for the SPARC-V8+ ABI. The difference from the V8 ABI is that the global and out registers are considered 64 bits wide. This is enabled by default on Solaris in 32-bit mode for all SPARC-V9 processors. So no, you don't need to rebuild everything as 64-bit binaries, or should I say, rebuild under LP64 model. That wouldn't even make sense and would hurt performance. Please refer anyone who believes this to this message. Patrick On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Sébastien Bernard <sbern...@nerim.net>wrote: > Le 18/04/2014 06:56, Joost van Baal-Ilić a écrit : > > I'd guess skilled hacker time is more needed than hardware. Reading >> https://release.debian.org/jessie/arch_qualify.html , it seems major >> blocking issues are: "Using gcc-4.6 as default compiler" and "Have to run >> oldstable kernels". Related to this: only 1 porter, only partial upstream >> support. Bye, Joost - who'd _love_ to have a fully supported Debian on >> sparc >> > So, if I have understood correctly, the main problem is that 32bit > compilation is not supported in the current releases of gcc ? > Going to 64bit userland is a huge leap forward. > For the second one, I wonder. I've been able to run 3.13 kernel on my V240 > hardware and I thing it's recent enough. > I have no clue why is it marked oldkernel something related to the buildd ? > > Seb > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-sparc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: https://lists.debian.org/5350e5e0.1090...@nerim.net > >
