What we may be seeing here is a repeat of what happened in the motorcycle industry happening to the car industry.
Motorcycle shift patterns have been standardized in US specification bikes since the 1960s due to http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/C... to enforce the 1N234 pattern on the left foot peg. Prior to this, it was not uncommon to find UK spec bikes with 32N1 and 1N234. Norton and Triumph are good examples of manufactures that changed during the 1960s when this standard came out.
Where things get interesting is there are scooter segments that use a N12345 pattern instead of the motorcycle pattern of 1N2345.
Because of this, I always ask what shift pattern is used on motorcycles when riding a new on for the first time.
But if you want some safety' changes that got taken off subsequent year models, BMW during the 1980s put a spring loaded auto retract side stand on at least the R series bikes to prevent you from riding off with the side stand down. No idea how many of these bikes got dropped on their side because owners looking to get off their bike would put the stand down, lean the bike over, and find the stand had already come back up. Another I actually liked was middle 1990s through early 2010s (model refresh time dependent) BMW had 3 different buttons for turn signals, Left handlebar for left, right handlebar for right, and a cancel instead of the 3 position toggle switch found on nearly every other bike before and since. Hazard was to hit both left and right at the same time. Midway, the bikes got auto cancel as a number of complaints came in that the cancel switch was hard to reach when wearing some types of gloves.
Texas has a speed limit of 80 mph between San Antonio and El Paso on Interstate Highway 10. Other roads in that area have similar day time speed limits. Texas is also quirky in that it is a Reasonable and Prudent state which means under various conditions the posted speed limit means nothing and you can be giving a speeding ticket for driving too slow, or too fast when driving the posted speed limit all depending on what other traffic or the weather is doing.
All of this means that in Texas, you can be a very short trip away from a road where the only safe speed to drive is over 70 mph. Never mind the large number of private race tracks people use with various club events like SCCA, or various performance car owners clubs.
And having the gas engine kick in and drive the wheels directly at 70 mph or with low batters is an interesting issue in and of itself. If you are in the middle of turning the car to a new direction, the results could even potentially cause the car to suddenly change handling characteristics.
Remember, you don't change laws in court, you change them in Congress.
If only more Americans understood this.
Please no. That will only do more harm.
You are apparently failing to understand the concept of the US Government check and balance system with the division of power. While in general congress has the power to make law, the executive the power to enforce law, and the judicial to judge a case based on law, each branch has the ability to effect the law in different ways. The executive has the ability to make law by signing of treaty with foreign powers, or to render a law useless by failing to enforce it. The judicial branch has the ability to make and remove laws as well in the form of rulings on the law or the result of jury nullification in the later case.
I'm not sure which institute of higher learning would like to take credit for this, but you never know. I keep having to remember to toss logic out the window at work, why not with these places as well.
What is intresting is that the discoverer of this, Mary Higby Schweitzer, is an evangelical Christian in addition to being a paleontologist. That has got to do a number on you mentally.
I find it amusing that this was all discovered because someone thought the place smelled of cadavers and not stone. Add to that the name of the place, Hell Creek.
I would really like to listen to the phone calls when a customer purchases with this link a Dell Precision Workstation With Linux and they are unable to get any of the bundled software to work.
From the mentioned website, during the configure process, you have choices of business software you would like to add to the workstation. Last time I checked, none of these ran on Linux systems yet. Choices include :
1. Avid Express DV 2. Adobe Video Collection Standard 2.5 3. Adobe Premier Pro 1.5 4. Adobe After Effects Pro 6.5 5. AutoCAD 2006 Standard 6. Avid Technology Avid Liquid 7 7. Alohabob Pc Backup 8. Alohabob Pc Essentials Suite 9. Alohabob PC Relocator Ultra
You can do a few different options, each with their own drawbacks. Depending on the libraries you are currently using you will possibly have to use a combination of these items.
Static linking allows you to distribute a single binary that will run on any linux system so long as you have the correct minimum kernel version and CPU. Some of the problems with this will include the license on the libraries you are using may not allow this, and the application's code image changes from what you have debugged against.
Dynamic linking and putting all of the required dynamic libraries your application requires in their own personal library directory. This is the quickest solution, but not always the best solution. It does allow you to release periodic incremental patches to the binaries used by your applicaton.
Usage of a application such as Elf Statifier to take your debugged dynamic application, and bundling the applicable libraries into your application. This is a halfway point between a completely dynamic and static application that allows you to take your "GOLD" release and package it up without changing the generated code in your application.
Just release your application as a dynamic application and mark it with the correct dependancies in RPM format and follow the Linux Standards Base.
Most commercial applications will use either the 2nd method (dynamic and distribute all their own versions of various dynamic libraries) or the 4th method. In both cases they specify a message to the effect of "We support X distro version Y. It may work on your linux distro, but we only support X version Y."
As you are planning to make money off of this game, I wish you luck, and suggest you take a look into what the most popular linux distros for your target audience will be. Based on advertisements from Wal-Mart and Fry's selling Linux preloaded I would bet Linspire and Xandros is high on that list. As with all things, don't forget the testing across many distributions to make sure the solution you choose actually works.
Combine this with a good method for getting a PXE boot setup (and devices that support the feature) and you will be able to create a menu that will allow you to automate system installs of Windows, Linux, and possible other systems, plus installing their related applicaton software later.
With this setup you can do system installs for any type of hardware that comes your way. Laptop vendor change the network card chipset without bothering to change the spec sheet? No problem, just add the driver to the above build instructions and life goes on.
Unix has been doing that for years as well, and quite possibly where the MAC people got the idea.
Unix symbolic links operate in one of two ways currently, SOFT and HARD.
Created via the SOFT mode, with the command "ln -s" the link specifies either a full or relative path to the target.
Created via the HARD mode, the inode use counter is incremented by one, and the entry is added to the directory listing.
Also, NTFS since Windows NT 4.0 or so, has had the capability for doing symbolic links in the HARD form for some time, they are just now getting around to adding an interface to activate the fature. Symbolic links in the SOFT form have been around for a short time now in the form for "Short Cuts" on the windows platform.
I would like to point out that most Cisco Kit is actually running IOS off an embedded PPC CPU.
There was even a project to run Linux on most Cisco routers and switches at one time.
Currently you will see a large majority of Cisco's high end equipment moving to commodity hardware running linux.
Examples of this are the Cisco Content Engine line are embeded linux machines. They are effectively a linux box running a proxy server (isn't squid, but has much of the same functionality).
http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/
Only company that I know of right now to actually impliment routing and switching in an ASIC is Nortel. Cisco is all general CPU running IOS which is how you get new features in same old hardware with IOS upgrades.
This Article in Discover Magazine has data against this. It additionally puts an upper limit on the time to approximately 20,000 years ago and a lower limit of approximately 17,000 years.
This data is based on genetic mutation in the Y chromosome. This works as it is passed father to son almost without change. (Some genetic variation happens due to random mutation.)
I am not sure on the details as I have not done this myself.
But in your situation I would be creating a make file to schedule the jobs with. Make can handle concurrency and with available patches can be made to distribute jobs to multiple nodes. Parallel Make Patches for GNU Make.
In a method like this I would recomend a small shared file system so that as you complete each job you can touch a file. This would allow you to continue from the point you left off, or if you wish, clear it out and start over.
Most registrars will provide you the ability to run at least 2, and usually more name servers (I think 6 is the limit). By using this fact, and the the fact that a client will request dns and use the first authoritive response it gets we can impliment something like the following.
Colocation facility 1 machine gets named "DNS1.domain.com" and is a reverse proxy to your real site. Colocation facility 2 machine gets named "DNS2.domain.com" and is also a reverse proxy to your real site. Add cache content sharing between these two servers for extra availability.
You will also be adding DNS servers to each one of those colocated servers. They run as masters (not slaves). The contents of the zones will make each server the single point of contact for your content.
With this setup the following happens when users request your content:
Browsers requests DNS lookup.
Client name server queries all the DNS servers for that domain for the request. First response wins.
Browser contacts your colocation server for content.
Colocation server checks its cache of your site.
if content does not exist, it will ask the cache partner for content, and then will query the real site.
Real site serves content to the proxy server at a much reduced rate.
I have recently decided to go back to a colo I have used in the past and couldn't be happier. Was hosting it internally but costs for the internet connection started getting higher than I was willing to pay.
IIC Internet is the hosting company I currently use for dedicated servers. Since I have been doing business with them I couldn't be happier.
Transfer: 1500GB
CPU: P4 2.4gHz
MEM: 1GB
Disk: 60GB
Fee: $119/mo
I looked around and these guys are the best I have found. After reading through the fine print on many of the other hosting companies out there, I couldn't do business with them.
EV1 I couldn't do business with because they never had servers in stock to purchase. RackSpace I couldn't use due to the agreements being very vague on what "Adult Content" is. (I host websites for night clubs and that might be on some planet "Adult Content"). And I went through others during the evaluation process.
I haven't been happier since I have used IIC Internet
You bring up some very excelent points about the business reasosn IBM is considering this as well as about how things are being controlled.
What I would like to know is how this is different from C, C++, Pascal, and Fortran language development. These are all languages with a standards body associated with them and all have open source implimentations for them.
What prevents the implimentation of a freely available clone? Just the license agreement that provides the "Certified Java Implimentation" logo?
As I am not a Gentoo user I won't be able to give you the Gentoo way. I can give you the way I do things in my DIY linux disro called Fire Dragon Linux . Probably should be called GNU/Linux but I don't think its high on the important list right now.
Basically I treat the Ultra 5 as if it where a SparcStation era Sun. This means that everythign is compiled for the Sparc V7 CPU (V7 is the least common denominator Sparc 32bit CPU, V8 is more common and includes a few functions more, and V9 is the Sparc64 or UltraSparc CPU line).
As I have 2 SparcStation 2 computers and 2 Ultra 5 computers I try to keep things running on both. The SS2 is a sun4c machine (SS5, SS20, and so forth are all sun4m machines), and Ultra 5 is sun4u machines. Sun3 machines exist and are m68K CPU. Linux doesn't support those well, NetBSD works on them.
In the case of applications like OpenSSL which benifit from instructions available in later Sparc V8 and V9 CPU I compile multiple versions (one for each CPU) and install the one that matches the CPU I have. Sparc for the V7, SparcV8 for the V8, and SparcV9 for the UltraSparc.
Kernel compiles on the UltraSparc require a special Binutils and GCC. Binutils should be compiled with --target=sparc-linux --enable-targets=sparc64-linux. Once installed, you need to go to the ${PREFIX}/bin directory and symlink sparc64-linux-* to the sparc-linux-* commands it installed (as, ld, nm, and so forth).
GCC is tricky on sparc64 as it requires usage of EGCS64 for the compiler (Yes, this compiler is from 1999). Debian is a good source of this package. GCC 3.2.x and 3.3.x can currently compile a sparc64 kernel but may generate invalid code from time to time.
GCC can be done with --target=sparc64-linux --with-cpu=v7 and then doing some symlinks I am told. I currently don't know as I have not gotten this part to work yet for me.
To close this I would highly recomend using Aurora Linux on a Sun machine right now unless you want to get into fixing the compiler tool chain and the C library on the platform. ROCK Linux in the latest version appears to have working support for generating a 32bit and 64bit userland. You may find things work there if they do not with Gentoo.
UltraSparc has a 64bit userland if you care to compile it. Currently the only distribution that I know of that provides one is the Aurora Linux distribution that is based off of RedHat 7.3. More information about the project is Here at the Aurora Linux website.
Currently its 64bit userland is limited to the C library and a few support libraries. This allows you to compile applications in 64bit mode so that they can gain the benifits of 64bit mode.
Most cases using 64bit applications cause the machine to be slower due to the doubling in the length of the addressing pointers and other factors. Better explination is available in their FAQ entry on this 64bit vs 32bit issue.
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What we may be seeing here is a repeat of what happened in the motorcycle industry happening to the car industry.
Motorcycle shift patterns have been standardized in US specification bikes since the 1960s due to http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/C... to enforce the 1N234 pattern on the left foot peg. Prior to this, it was not uncommon to find UK spec bikes with 32N1 and 1N234. Norton and Triumph are good examples of manufactures that changed during the 1960s when this standard came out.
Where things get interesting is there are scooter segments that use a N12345 pattern instead of the motorcycle pattern of 1N2345.
Because of this, I always ask what shift pattern is used on motorcycles when riding a new on for the first time.
But if you want some safety' changes that got taken off subsequent year models, BMW during the 1980s put a spring loaded auto retract side stand on at least the R series bikes to prevent you from riding off with the side stand down. No idea how many of these bikes got dropped on their side because owners looking to get off their bike would put the stand down, lean the bike over, and find the stand had already come back up. Another I actually liked was middle 1990s through early 2010s (model refresh time dependent) BMW had 3 different buttons for turn signals, Left handlebar for left, right handlebar for right, and a cancel instead of the 3 position toggle switch found on nearly every other bike before and since. Hazard was to hit both left and right at the same time. Midway, the bikes got auto cancel as a number of complaints came in that the cancel switch was hard to reach when wearing some types of gloves.
Texas has a speed limit of 80 mph between San Antonio and El Paso on Interstate Highway 10. Other roads in that area have similar day time speed limits. Texas is also quirky in that it is a Reasonable and Prudent state which means under various conditions the posted speed limit means nothing and you can be giving a speeding ticket for driving too slow, or too fast when driving the posted speed limit all depending on what other traffic or the weather is doing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_limits_in_the_United_States
All of this means that in Texas, you can be a very short trip away from a road where the only safe speed to drive is over 70 mph. Never mind the large number of private race tracks people use with various club events like SCCA, or various performance car owners clubs.
And having the gas engine kick in and drive the wheels directly at 70 mph or with low batters is an interesting issue in and of itself. If you are in the middle of turning the car to a new direction, the results could even potentially cause the car to suddenly change handling characteristics.
Trust the computer is modded Insightful with all the recent Toyota problems? This should be modded Funny, he even mentioned putting Hal in charge
I learned a long time ago, NEVER trust the computer. You don't have enough clones. Paranoia isn't when the computer really is out to get you.
Remember, you don't change laws in court, you change them in Congress.
If only more Americans understood this.
Please no. That will only do more harm.
You are apparently failing to understand the concept of the US Government check and balance system with the division of power. While in general congress has the power to make law, the executive the power to enforce law, and the judicial to judge a case based on law, each branch has the ability to effect the law in different ways. The executive has the ability to make law by signing of treaty with foreign powers, or to render a law useless by failing to enforce it. The judicial branch has the ability to make and remove laws as well in the form of rulings on the law or the result of jury nullification in the later case.
Unfortunately many people, for whatever reason, fail to understand exactly how the US government is organized, and what powers each branch of government really have over the others. A good read can be had at : http://www.enotes.com/government-checks-balances/legislative-judicial-checks-balances for more detailed information on this.
With a little help from google...
http://www.friendship.com.au/writing/meat.html
By Terry Bisson, part of a short story about the unlikely nature of thinking meat trying to make contact with the rest of the universe.
Looks like I forgot to type some of what I was thinking again. When can we have that direct RJ45 to the brain again?
You are quite right in that UTSA and the other ACCD schools are public.
I have my personal bets towards Incarnate Word. Truth may be stranger than fiction.
In addition to St. Mary's University, you left out the other 4 I could remember.
University of the Incarnate Word
Our Lady of the Lake University
Trinity University
Wayland Baptist University
The rest I remember are members of the Alamo Community College District or University of Texas.
I'm not sure which institute of higher learning would like to take credit for this, but you never know. I keep having to remember to toss logic out the window at work, why not with these places as well.
Nearly 6 years ago this was discovered. Wow is this ever late. Btw, didn't anyone think of the T. Rex? Think of the children, the T. Rex was pregnant!
But what about the discoverer of this? How is she doing with this controversy?
From Schweitzer's Dangerous Discovery article in Discover Magazine published in April of 2006 you get some new information.
What is intresting is that the discoverer of this, Mary Higby Schweitzer, is an evangelical Christian in addition to being a paleontologist. That has got to do a number on you mentally.
I find it amusing that this was all discovered because someone thought the place smelled of cadavers and not stone. Add to that the name of the place, Hell Creek.
For no other good reason than to be the a member of the team that first "debugged" a computer by removal of the moth.
So says Grace Hopper Wikipedia entry.
That was all I could remember until I read the Wikipedia entry. More good stuff is there.
I would really like to listen to the phone calls when a customer purchases with this link a Dell Precision Workstation With Linux and they are unable to get any of the bundled software to work.
From the mentioned website, during the configure process, you have choices of business software you would like to add to the workstation. Last time I checked, none of these ran on Linux systems yet. Choices include :
1. Avid Express DV
2. Adobe Video Collection Standard 2.5
3. Adobe Premier Pro 1.5
4. Adobe After Effects Pro 6.5
5. AutoCAD 2006 Standard
6. Avid Technology Avid Liquid 7
7. Alohabob Pc Backup
8. Alohabob Pc Essentials Suite
9. Alohabob PC Relocator Ultra
You can do a few different options, each with their own drawbacks. Depending on the libraries you are currently using you will possibly have to use a combination of these items.
Static linking allows you to distribute a single binary that will run on any linux system so long as you have the correct minimum kernel version and CPU. Some of the problems with this will include the license on the libraries you are using may not allow this, and the application's code image changes from what you have debugged against.
Dynamic linking and putting all of the required dynamic libraries your application requires in their own personal library directory. This is the quickest solution, but not always the best solution. It does allow you to release periodic incremental patches to the binaries used by your applicaton.
Usage of a application such as Elf Statifier to take your debugged dynamic application, and bundling the applicable libraries into your application. This is a halfway point between a completely dynamic and static application that allows you to take your "GOLD" release and package it up without changing the generated code in your application.
Just release your application as a dynamic application and mark it with the correct dependancies in RPM format and follow the Linux Standards Base.
Most commercial applications will use either the 2nd method (dynamic and distribute all their own versions of various dynamic libraries) or the 4th method. In both cases they specify a message to the effect of "We support X distro version Y. It may work on your linux distro, but we only support X version Y."
As you are planning to make money off of this game, I wish you luck, and suggest you take a look into what the most popular linux distros for your target audience will be. Based on advertisements from Wal-Mart and Fry's selling Linux preloaded I would bet Linspire and Xandros is high on that list. As with all things, don't forget the testing across many distributions to make sure the solution you choose actually works.
System imaging solutions such as Symantec Ghost are good solutions for most people, but are not always the right solution.
What may be a good solution that is adaptive to your needs is this solution : http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
Combine this with a good method for getting a PXE boot setup (and devices that support the feature) and you will be able to create a menu that will allow you to automate system installs of Windows, Linux, and possible other systems, plus installing their related applicaton software later.
With this setup you can do system installs for any type of hardware that comes your way. Laptop vendor change the network card chipset without bothering to change the spec sheet? No problem, just add the driver to the above build instructions and life goes on.
Unix has been doing that for years as well, and quite possibly where the MAC people got the idea.
/ 08/msg00240.html
Unix symbolic links operate in one of two ways currently, SOFT and HARD.
Created via the SOFT mode, with the command "ln -s" the link specifies either a full or relative path to the target.
Created via the HARD mode, the inode use counter is incremented by one, and the entry is added to the directory listing.
Also, NTFS since Windows NT 4.0 or so, has had the capability for doing symbolic links in the HARD form for some time, they are just now getting around to adding an interface to activate the fature. Symbolic links in the SOFT form have been around for a short time now in the form for "Short Cuts" on the windows platform.
Reference to a security problem Windows NT 4.0 and Windows 2000 have with this feature : http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/archive/bugtraq/2002
On the models I have seen. (Cisco 4500 IIRC)
Based on information I have also seen (The linux project I linked to) there are some models running Motorolla 68K CPU as well.
In some cases there are models that I know ship running linux but never bother to figure out the CPU they ran (Cisco Content Engine 590 for example).
I would like to point out that most Cisco Kit is actually running IOS off an embedded PPC CPU.
There was even a project to run Linux on most Cisco routers and switches at one time.
Currently you will see a large majority of Cisco's high end equipment moving to commodity hardware running linux.
Examples of this are the Cisco Content Engine line are embeded linux machines. They are effectively a linux box running a proxy server (isn't squid, but has much of the same functionality).
http://www.mcvax.org/~koen/uClinux-cisco2500/
Only company that I know of right now to actually impliment routing and switching in an ASIC is Nortel. Cisco is all general CPU running IOS which is how you get new features in same old hardware with IOS upgrades.
This Article in Discover Magazine has data against this. It additionally puts an upper limit on the time to approximately 20,000 years ago and a lower limit of approximately 17,000 years.
This data is based on genetic mutation in the Y chromosome. This works as it is passed father to son almost without change. (Some genetic variation happens due to random mutation.)
Wasn't this the TV Show "Max Headroom"?
I am not sure on the details as I have not done this myself.
But in your situation I would be creating a make file to schedule the jobs with. Make can handle concurrency and with available patches can be made to distribute jobs to multiple nodes. Parallel Make Patches for GNU Make.
In a method like this I would recomend a small shared file system so that as you complete each job you can touch a file. This would allow you to continue from the point you left off, or if you wish, clear it out and start over.
Most registrars will provide you the ability to run at least 2, and usually more name servers (I think 6 is the limit). By using this fact, and the the fact that a client will request dns and use the first authoritive response it gets we can impliment something like the following.
:
Colocation facility 1 machine gets named "DNS1.domain.com" and is a reverse proxy to your real site. Colocation facility 2 machine gets named "DNS2.domain.com" and is also a reverse proxy to your real site. Add cache content sharing between these two servers for extra availability.
You will also be adding DNS servers to each one of those colocated servers. They run as masters (not slaves). The contents of the zones will make each server the single point of contact for your content.
With this setup the following happens when users request your content
Browsers requests DNS lookup.
Client name server queries all the DNS servers for that domain for the request. First response wins.
Browser contacts your colocation server for content.
Colocation server checks its cache of your site.
if content does not exist, it will ask the cache partner for content, and then will query the real site.
Real site serves content to the proxy server at a much reduced rate.
I have recently decided to go back to a colo I have used in the past and couldn't be happier. Was hosting it internally but costs for the internet connection started getting higher than I was willing to pay.
IIC Internet is the hosting company I currently use for dedicated servers. Since I have been doing business with them I couldn't be happier.
I looked around and these guys are the best I have found. After reading through the fine print on many of the other hosting companies out there, I couldn't do business with them.
EV1 I couldn't do business with because they never had servers in stock to purchase. RackSpace I couldn't use due to the agreements being very vague on what "Adult Content" is. (I host websites for night clubs and that might be on some planet "Adult Content"). And I went through others during the evaluation process.
I haven't been happier since I have used IIC Internet
Now that I have gone back and read the GCJ project page, it appears that that is exactly what they are doing. Using GIJ.
You bring up some very excelent points about the business reasosn IBM is considering this as well as about how things are being controlled.
What I would like to know is how this is different from C, C++, Pascal, and Fortran language development. These are all languages with a standards body associated with them and all have open source implimentations for them.
What prevents the implimentation of a freely available clone? Just the license agreement that provides the "Certified Java Implimentation" logo?
What about the already existing Open Source Java implimentations?
GNU Compiler for Java is available from the FSF. There is also work to make a Mozilla plugin for using GCJ to allow Java Applets to run.
Kaffe PersonalJava 1.1 compliant Java.
Kaffe once shipped with RedHat. GCJ currently ships with most major linux distributions right now.
As I am not a Gentoo user I won't be able to give you the Gentoo way. I can give you the way I do things in my DIY linux disro called Fire Dragon Linux . Probably should be called GNU/Linux but I don't think its high on the important list right now.
Basically I treat the Ultra 5 as if it where a SparcStation era Sun. This means that everythign is compiled for the Sparc V7 CPU (V7 is the least common denominator Sparc 32bit CPU, V8 is more common and includes a few functions more, and V9 is the Sparc64 or UltraSparc CPU line).
As I have 2 SparcStation 2 computers and 2 Ultra 5 computers I try to keep things running on both. The SS2 is a sun4c machine (SS5, SS20, and so forth are all sun4m machines), and Ultra 5 is sun4u machines. Sun3 machines exist and are m68K CPU. Linux doesn't support those well, NetBSD works on them.
In the case of applications like OpenSSL which benifit from instructions available in later Sparc V8 and V9 CPU I compile multiple versions (one for each CPU) and install the one that matches the CPU I have. Sparc for the V7, SparcV8 for the V8, and SparcV9 for the UltraSparc.
Kernel compiles on the UltraSparc require a special Binutils and GCC. Binutils should be compiled with --target=sparc-linux --enable-targets=sparc64-linux. Once installed, you need to go to the ${PREFIX}/bin directory and symlink sparc64-linux-* to the sparc-linux-* commands it installed (as, ld, nm, and so forth).
GCC is tricky on sparc64 as it requires usage of EGCS64 for the compiler (Yes, this compiler is from 1999). Debian is a good source of this package. GCC 3.2.x and 3.3.x can currently compile a sparc64 kernel but may generate invalid code from time to time.
GCC can be done with --target=sparc64-linux --with-cpu=v7 and then doing some symlinks I am told. I currently don't know as I have not gotten this part to work yet for me.
To close this I would highly recomend using Aurora Linux on a Sun machine right now unless you want to get into fixing the compiler tool chain and the C library on the platform. ROCK Linux in the latest version appears to have working support for generating a 32bit and 64bit userland. You may find things work there if they do not with Gentoo.
UltraSparc has a 64bit userland if you care to compile it. Currently the only distribution that I know of that provides one is the Aurora Linux distribution that is based off of RedHat 7.3. More information about the project is Here at the Aurora Linux website .
.
Currently its 64bit userland is limited to the C library and a few support libraries. This allows you to compile applications in 64bit mode so that they can gain the benifits of 64bit mode.
Most cases using 64bit applications cause the machine to be slower due to the doubling in the length of the addressing pointers and other factors. Better explination is available in their FAQ entry on this 64bit vs 32bit issue