On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 12:55 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> My intention to revive "sparc" is because it uses the V8 instruction > set as opposed to the V9 instruction set used by "sparc64". Wow, that's ambitious! AFAIR the last V8 Debian was Etch. > V8 supports more software (e.g., JavaScript JIT is not supported on > V9) and more older hardware. I think JavaScript JIT is supported for v8plus which actually requires a V9 CPU, (it's a 64bit ABI with 32bit pointers, so v8/v8plus/v9 counterparts in the x86 world are i686/x32/x86_64). Artyom -- Regards, Artyom Tarasenko SPARC and PPC PReP under qemu blog: http://tyom.blogspot.com/search/label/qemu
