On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 01:31:40AM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Bill Dorsey said:
> 
> >Are you sure it's 200MHz?  A friend of mine has Solaris 9 installed on 
> >his 270MHz Ultra, and I'm pretty sure when we checked the executables 
> >in userland, they were 32-bit.  Also, Sun's "officially supported" 
> >version of Linux (Debian) runs all the ultrasparcs with a 32-bit kernel 
> >and 32-bit userland.
> 
> For Solaris it should be 64bit kernel and 32bit userland. On anything above
> a Sun Ultra 1, it has defaulted to a 64 bit kernel since Solaris 7. Sun
> provides two sets of shared libraries.
> 
> >While it may be that running in 64-bit mode is the right way to go down 
> >the line, until more of the pkgsrc sources I depend on (like cyrus and 
> >apache-ssl) work in 64-bit big-endian mode, I'm stuck running in 32-bit 
> >mode.  Given all the compiler warnings I saw scroll by when I was 
> >trying to get these (and other packages) working in 64-bit mode, it 
> >looks like it will take quite a bit of work to get them all 
> >straightened out.
> 
> Your app problems will probably be solved once GCC 3.3 is brought in.
> GCC 2.95.3 sucks on 64bit sparc, especially for C++.

Anyone know when this may be happening?  I've been waiting on this for
a while now :)

    Ian