Re: What's GENERIC32?

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

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>> 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?

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