Re: Future work

"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.
>
>
> 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?

64-bit with additional 32-bit libs.  lsbsi should be pure 64-bit IMO.

> Once the concept it set up it wouldn't be
> to hard to do it either way, I don't think.

I suggest to build it like you build it on ia64 ;-)

Andreas
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