Re: New Solaris 7 features

Nick Holloway (Nick.Holloway@alfie.demon.co.uk)
10 Nov 1998 18:39:05 -0000


alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox) writes:
> > - Arithmetic computations get to use 64-bit registers and operations
>
> Except on the half of the ultrasparcs, where 64bit stuff is
> mostly disabled because of CPU bugs ;) (See Bugtraq)

What does Linux/sparc64 do with these chips?

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