Do/should we install x86_64 kernel on i386 now?

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 08:00 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:

> Supplementary question
> If I have an AMD-64 compatible CPU, what reasons exist for installing 
> IA32 anything?

These days, very little. Used to be the case that, for e.g., it was
tough to get plugins in Firefox working well in x86-64, especially
Flash, and OpenOffice.org didn't used to work as an x86-64 native build.

Just about the only significant app now that needs to be run x86-32 is
wine...
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