Re: Future work
Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:11:27 +0200
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lsb.implementation |
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"Wichmann, Mats D" <[email protected]> writes: > NOTE: we suspect that the same consideration > applies to AMD64 - namely that an essentially > 32-bit distribution with 64-bit libraries added > on top is an adequate solution. The lsbsi is > not proposed to contain 64-bit binaries, but to > be able to run them, including the LSB runtime > test suite and the application battery. Can > someone with AMD64 knowledge confirm or deny > that this approach would work? You could do the same as on PowerPC64 but this is not how we do it at SuSE. AMD64 is a real 64-bit systems with additionally 32-bit libraries to support execution of x86 binaries. So you have a full 64-bit userland including binaries. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, [email protected], http://www.suse.de/~aj SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, 90429 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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