Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:24:12 -0500 | From | Chuck Ebbert <> | Subject | Re: Re: Athlon 64 X2 cpuinfo oddities |
| |
In-Reply-To: <9a8748490601100129h2ce343f5kc9bc22885f01831a@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> Yeah, but since my distro of choice is 32bit only and I don't much > feel like porting it myself or using an unofficial port (slamd64) I'm > sticking with a 32bit userspace. And as long as userspace is pure > 32bit there doesn't seem to be much point in building a 64bit kernel.
Of course there's a point -- you can test both x86-64 and i386 kernels. Sometimes one has a bug the other doesn't, as you just found.
FWIW, 32-bit userspace works almost perfectly for me on 64-bit kernel (everything but iptables and old pcmcia-cs package.)
-- Chuck Currently reading: _Olympos_ by Dan Simmons - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |