Re: question about sparc 64-bit user land

Ben Collins (bcollins@debian.org)
Sat, 26 Jan 2002 12:24:16 -0500

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 12:16:03PM -0500, linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org wrote:
> My understanding is that there is no 64-bit user land support for
> UltraSPARC, although the kernel runs in 64-bit mode. Is that correct?
> If yes: why is that (still) so?

No, that is incorrect. Debian currenty has 64bit userland support, and I
believe Rockports does aswell. Someone on the sparclinux claims full
64bit bootstrap (including X), but that isn't really needed since 64bit
is actually slower than 32bit userland.

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