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Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc 

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:57:39PM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:
> Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 17:57:39 -0400
> From: gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net>
> To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] Buying a Sparc
> Mail-Followup-To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
> 
> On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 05:24:56PM -0400, Time wrote:
> > The kernel runs in 64 bit mode if I understand what I've read correctly,
> > but the user runs programs in 32 bit mode to avoid unnecessary overhead.
> 
> Hrm. gcc knows how to compile the Linux kernel as an ELF 64-bit
> MSB executable? You sure? gcc's *really* bad with 64-bit everything
> even in 3.x...

You cut off the line where I said...

> >Most of this I don't understand as I'm not a Debian developer,

8P
 
> (It's easy to tell: just use file(1) on your kernel.)
 

[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)


 

Regards,


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