Re: Sync on Linux/Alpha
  By: Digital Man to Sam Alexander on Fri May 11 2007 07:00 pm

 >   Re: Sync on Linux/Alpha
 >   By: Sam Alexander to All on Fri May 11 2007 02:25 pm
 > 
 >  > Hey Guys,
 >  >
 >  > I might be getting an older DEC Alpha server, an AlphaServer 1000A S/400R
 >  > to be exact, and I was curious if Sync would run on such a system with
 >  > Debian 4.0 for Linux.  If I do get it, it'll take some time to get it hom
 >  > (it's the rack and all) plus setup.
 > 
 > IIRC, the Alpha is a big-endian processor, in which case Synchronet does not
 > currently support that architecture. Even after we have big-endian support i
 > the code (Deuce does have an experimental patch), there will likely be some
 > additional effort to build for a platform that neither Deuce nor I have acce
 > to.

Ahh, honestly this will be my first time to work with an Alpha for any 
personal projects, so I don't know much about them.  I was just curious if 
Sync would run on one, but if not that's cool.  I'm reading up on Endinness 
right now on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness - and it's 
an interesting read... I never knew this area existed, so learned something 
new :)

Thanks --

Sam


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