Features/ArchitectureSupport - x86_64 kernel 32 bit userspace

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Thu Feb 26 14:56:20 UTC 2009


Matthew Garrett (mjg at redhat.com) said: 
> > Should work (solaris had a similar setup and they supported it)
> 
> You lose vm86() mode, so dosemu won't work. You also have to hope that 
> all the ioctl compatibility works - historically this hasn't been the 
> case for all subsystems.

But any such subsystems where this is the case are already broken
on ppc64/sparc64.

Bill




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