Re: What's GENERIC32?
Robert Swindells <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64 |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
>>> This leads me to ask, just what is 32-bit here? Not what's 32-bit >>> about the built executable - I can read documentation on the options >>> used - but what's different about those machines that calls for the >>> kernel to be built differently like this? > >> The kernel is a 32bit, hardware is 64 bit and userland is sparc >> instead of sparc64 (so 32bit too). > >If the hardware is 64-bit, why not just use straight sparc64? What's >different that makes that fail? The GENERIC32 kernel will identify the system as sparc not sparc64 when using uname or sysctl.