64-bit user-space on G5? Never, soonish, or unknown?

[linas at austin.ibm.com]

Hi Albert,

On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 06:16:28PM -0500, Albert Cahalan wrote:
>
> Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes:
>
> > The 64 bits kernel allow you to run both 32 and
> > 64 bits userland, the common practice is to have
> > a 32 bit userland with the necessary libs to be
> > able to build & run _some_ 64 bits executables.
>
> You'd better have a 64-bit ncurses. If you don't,
> your procps will be compiled incorrectly. Data
> will get truncated, mangled, etc. -- assuming you
> can even run the tools at all.

? My ps, top, w all work fine:

linas at panic:~> file /usr/bin/top
/usr/bin/top: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
linas at panic:~> file /bin/ps
/bin/ps: ELF 32-bit MSB executable, PowerPC or cisco 4500, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped

They've been running fine, with all manner of mangled and hacked
2.4 and 2.6 kernels.

--linas

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