MySQL Bugs: #8353: Provide maxDB binaries for PowerPC 32 bit

Bug #8353	Provide maxDB binaries for PowerPC 32 bit
Submitted:	7 Feb 2005 10:38	Modified:	6 Apr 2005 10:45
Reporter:	Gunnar von Boehn	Email Updates:
Status:	Closed	Impact on me:	None
Category:	MaxDB	Severity:	S4 (Feature request)
Version:		OS:
Assigned to:	Patrik Backman	CPU Architecture:	Any

Description:
Hi,

Customers have asked us for 32bit PowerPC binaries of MaxDB.
Please consider to provide them.

Many thanks in advance
Gunnar

How to repeat:
see above

Gunnar, please check this with Patrik internally. 

Best regards,
Ulf

Gunnar,

please provide Patrik or any other sales person with a list of customers or prospects that have a strong 32-bit PPC demand. If it's possible for you to come up with a buisiness case that justifies the necessary investment in consultancy, I'm sure we will not hestitate to push MaxDB into the market. Please consider that with a 32-bit address bus size has not a long term future in the enterprise database market. 

Best regards,
Ulf

Ulf,

The MySQL partners Genesi, Freescale were asking for MaxDB binaries for PPC 32 Bit.
They produce PPC servers, blade servers and desktops and had customers asking for MaxDB, IMHO. But I do not know the names of these customers of Freescale out of my head.
Shall I contact Genesi and Freescale and ask for them?

Regarding the address space - the 32 bit PowerPC supports addressing of more memory
using similar technices as Intel Xeon CPUs. IHMO the 32Bit PPC G4 has a max address space of 2^52 Bit. Most PPC servers over a physicel memory size of 16 GB.
BTW Many people think that using MMU based memory "banks" like the Xeon and PPC provide is slow. And this is partially true for Intel as a bank switch can cost up to 800 CPU cycles.
But as on the PPC you can switch a bank for 12-30 clocks, this is not a problem.

In think the often available 16GB of physyical memory should be enough for most MaxDB usages?

Cheers
Gunnar

Thank you for taking the time to write to us, but this is not
a bug. Please double-check the documentation available at
http://www.mysql.com/documentation/ and the instructions on
how to report a bug at http://bugs.mysql.com/how-to-report.php

Additional info:

This is not a bug, but has moved to an internal discussion.