[SunHELP] SS5 and 64bit

[Dale Ghent]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, James Fogg wrote:

| I have a SS5 with the 70 (or 75?) mhz chip. Documentation on some sun
| support sites indicate this uses the sun4m structure and is 64bit
| capable. I installed sol7 64 bit and it didn't complain. Now I am
| getting errors installing 64bit packages. Someone who should know says
| the SS5 is 32bit only, that sol7 would have dropped back to 32bit
| during install and thats why the 64bit packages are failing.
|
| What's the real deal?

SS5 has a MicroSPARC-II CPU, which is 32bit. 64bit kernels or programs
will not run on anything other than a sun4u (UltraSPARC).

/dale