Re: What's GENERIC32?

[Robert Swindells <rjs%fdy2.co.uk@localhost>]

>>> 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.