gabriel rosenkoetter on Thu, 25 Apr 2002 21:31:00 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 06:34:23PM -0400, Time wrote:
> [root@sixtyfour]/$ cd boot
> 
> [root@sixtyfour]/boot$ file -z vmlinuz-2.2.19-sun4u
> vmlinuz-2.2.19-sun4u: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1
> (SYSV) (gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, `vmlinux',
> last modified: Mon Apr  2 13:29:54 2001, max compression, os: Unix)
> 
> [root@sixtyfour]/boot$ file -z vmlinuz-2.4.16
> vmlinuz-2.4.16: ELF 64-bit MSB executable, SPARC V9, version 1 (SYSV)
> (gzip compressed data, deflated, original filename, `vmlinux', last
> modified: Tue Dec 11 02:21:39 2001, max compression, os: Unix)

Now that I'll believe.

Would you do a cc -v for me too, Time? (Have you built your own
kernel locally?)

Judging by their web page, they're well aware that things aren't
exactly perfect with 64-bit compiling. It makes it sounds like
they're duplicating the FSF's efforts, though... one of the gcc 3
goals is to actually do 64-bit linking properly.

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr@eclipsed.net

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