RE: Future work

> > 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.


Okay, that's why the question was asked!
Would you suggest building AMD64's lsbsi
the way you do, 64-bit with 32-bit libs?
Once the concept it set up it wouldn't be
to hard to do it either way, I don't think.

-- mats