Re: Future work

Andreas Jaeger <[email protected]> Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:11:27 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.implementation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"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
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