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Re: On including 64-bit libs in 32-bit packages (see #344104)



On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:30:47PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
> > "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@debian.org> writes:
> >> Is it possible to make 64bit kernels available?
> > 
> > Sarge does have them and the BTS has a patch for linux-2.6 to enable
> > them again. Now go and hit the kernel team till they apply the
> > patch. :)
> 
> Bear in mind that the 64-bit kernel doesn't offer all the functionality 
> that the 32-bit one does. vm86 is the most obvious thing missing.

[8:23am] hamish@noddy:~> grep VM86 /boot/config-2.6.17-2-amd64
CONFIG_VM86=y

?

Hamish
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Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <hamish@debian.org> <hamish@cloud.net.au>



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