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Author Re: Instead of the amd64 GR: rudimentary amd64 support for sarge, need sponsor.
Fabricio Cannini

2004-07-30, 5:52 pm

--- Goswin von Brederlow
<brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> escreveu:
> Fabricio Cannini <segfaulter@yahoo.com.br> writes:
>
> expressed by some of
> going to happen. So
> amd64 systems too.
> proposing is to put this
> 'unstable' (most
> in order to have
>
> No, I propose adding 4-6 more debs to the i386 sid
> (and 10 days later
> to sarge) to add some amd64 support to i386. About
> the same amount as
> sparc64 has in sparc, s390x in s390 or powerpc64 in
> powerpc.


Sounds cool if that's all that is needed,
but what will still be missing to fully support amd64?
I think it's safer to do it on testing,
and when Sarge+1 comes out to add it on stable.
By the time that Sarge comes out,
we must shout out loud that the amd64 support is not
as good as other platforms.

YES, i know that other people have said it before,
but seems useful remember such kind of thing.
>
> With that users could run a 64 bit PostgreSQL while
> keeping the rest
> of the system i386 stable. Or use the 8GB ram they
> bought while still
> using i386 stable.
>
> binaries
> others like posix
> the release.
> worked out until Sarge+1.
>
> Since it can be achived within the sarge release
> plan with minimal
> work I see no reason not to do it now.


AFAIK, POSIX compliance is not sometihng
as easy as the 32/64 bits thing to be achieved,
but must be pursued too.

>
> i386. That would be
> kernel image in sparc or
>
> MfG
> Goswin






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