Sabayon Screencast

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Mon Nov 7 16:13:48 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:59 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote:
>     Other operating systems install 32-bit applications under a 64-bit 
> kernel.  For instance,  Solaris 10 installs a largely 32-bit userspace 
> on both Sparc64 and AMD64.  This has the nice effect that the same 
> Solaris 10 disk installs on both x86-32 and x86-64.  This is probably a 
> good choice for SPARC,  but AMD64 gets a performance boost from the 
> extra registers.

Fedora does the same on ppc64 -- most userspace is ppc32.

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