PLD on sun4u/sparc64

[The Undefined]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 03:18:41PM -0700, Chris Poon wrote:
> Just curious to see if anyone has an UltraSPARC loaded with PLD - seems
[undefine at ares undefine]$ uname -a; uptime
Linux ares 2.4.20 #4 wto gru 3 09:29:27 CET 2002 sparc64
TI_UltraSparc_IIi unknown PLD Linux
 01:43:18 up 73 days, 13:32, 14 users,  load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.18

;)
i have 10 ultras 10, each with 192mb memory. 8 works as workstations, 1
is my "devel machine"(ares) and 1 is unused ;)

> to me that lacking an official kernel RPM, nobody would have a working system.
i have my own kernel, compiled long time ago...
i don't like reboots this machines, so.. i don't change it :)

> The other major obstacle is the 32/64 bit translation between userland and
> kernel - there is certainly no glibc64 RPM for sparc64 nor is there any 64-bit
> userland program. Almost anything that needs to interact with the kernel
> seems to have major problem if they are compiled as 32 bit...
i'm not interested in 64bit userland, because.. on this sparcs 64bit
userland is simply slow(much slower than 32bit). and those machines are
slow too...
slow + slow = very slow ;)
64bit userland is basicaly not needed for me. i have only 192mb ram, not
more than 4gbit ;). and I don't compute there very big numbers... simply
64bit userland is useless.

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