From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j211eE07015423 for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 01:40:14 GMT Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=home.wh0rd.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1D5wMs-0006Y8-Oo for gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2005 01:40:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 18787 invoked from network); 28 Feb 2005 21:09:20 -0500 Received: from unknown (HELO vapier) (192.168.0.2) by 192.168.0.1 with SMTP; 28 Feb 2005 21:09:20 -0500 From: Mike Frysinger Organization: wh0rd.org To: gentoo-dev@robin.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-dev] x86 vs amd64 :: ppc vs ppc64 (was sys-apps is too big) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 20:41:00 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <20050223190035.618a8aab@snowdrop> <20050301012151.GA19328@curie-int.orbis-terrarum.net> <1109640845.23874.6.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1109640845.23874.6.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502282041.00844.vapier@gentoo.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j211eE07015423 X-Archives-Salt: 910524b1-9867-4aba-8222-e9ee84e66935 X-Archives-Hash: e87a9285a87878db900e6ea6d37e4a01 On Monday 28 February 2005 08:34 pm, Olivier Crête wrote: > On Mon, 2005-28-02 at 17:21 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote: > > linux32 -> app-emulation (or maybe sys-devel with mips32/sparc32) > > Its not emulation... just tells the OS to advertise itself as i686 > instead of x86_64. and its not specifically a dev tool anyone know why ppc64 doesnt do the samething ? if you run a 32bit userspace system with 64bit kernel, uname advertizes 'powerpc64' instead of 'powerpc' ... -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list