Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 15:36:10 -0700 From: Joshua Uziel <uzi@uzix.org> Message-ID: <20000928153609.B7475@gimp.org> Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] New installation on SPARCStation 20 w/4 processors
* David T. Bath <bathd@edipost.auspost.com.au> [000928 10:18]:
> Does anyone know whether executables on SuSE Sparc Linux
> can take full advantange of the 64-bit stuff.
> I'm NOT talking about the half-hearted effort of Solaris 2.6,
> I'm talking about whether you it uses the registers like
> Solaris 2.7, and whether you can create both 32-bit and
> 64-bit executables similar to the SUNWspro toolkit
> (e.g. where CFLAGS includes -xtarget=ultra -xarch=v9a)
No, currently SPARC/Linux on UltraSPARC machines is 32-bit userspace
and 64-bit kernelspace. This is not a SuSE limitation, and you'd
have this if you ran Redhat, Debian, Mandrake or Caldera as well.
Some people are working on this issue (Ben Collins, David Miller,
Jakub Jelinek, etc.), and I don't know it's ETA.
> Also, can I create STATIC executables that run on SolarisSparc?
Solaris/SPARC is not able to execute Linux/SPARC binaries (though
Solaris/x86 can run Linux/x86 binaries through lxrun)... but you
can run some Solaris/SPARC apps on Linux/SPARC using solemu. I've
not tried this personally, and the limitation seems to be threaded
applications due to the differences between the two OSes (lxrun has
this same limitation on x86).
I figure you can use solemu to build static Solaris applications,
yes... but I figure this isn't what you meant. :)
If you want to build a static Linux/SPARC app and run it on Solaris,
then no, that won't work.
Good luck. :)
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