Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 4 Feb 2003 00:51:50 +0100 | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: 32bit emulation of wireless ioctls |
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On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 03:17:40PM -0800, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > > Anyways: for me it is just slightly annoying to not have 32bit > > emulation for something, but for other ports like sparc64/ppc64/mips64 > > it can be show stopper because they only have 32bit userland. > > <Puzzled of why you would *not* want a 64 bit userland>
Of course I want to have a 64bit userland. In fact I have one.
Just we offer the users the choice to boot 32bit distributions with 64bit kernels too, in case they only need a single application that needs 64bit or similar. I'm also prepared to rip out or ignore very obscure parts of the 32bit emulation (in fact I did that already), but if it's used commonly or even called in bootup it should be supported.
Short term I will just settle on getting that message away so that RedHat users won't bother me anymore. Can you suggest a good way to handle SIOCGIWNAME? Should I just make it return -EINVAL?
> > Expect trouble when DaveM wants to plug a wireless card into one of > > his sparc64 boxes ;-) > > I want to see that ;-) > I've always been telling David and Stephane here that they > should loan me an Itanium box to make sure IrDA and Wireless LAN work > properly, for the day we will release a PDA with an Itanium processor.
I understand why you don't see much point to run 32bit on Itanium because of the performance. But that's not a problem on all 64bit ports...
-Andi
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