* Markus Spitzli (markus@spitzli.org) wrote: > I prefere a proper solution instead a of quick implementation. One does not preclude the other. There's no reason we can't do a quick implementation now *and* continue working towards multiarch. The 64bit-native port is unlikely to take all that much time and work for it will probably be shared between the native port and the mutliarch work. I think everyone agrees that a nice multiarch system would be good to have. It'd be useful for more than just amd64, as many have pointed out. Some of us, however, would like to just get a quick-n-dirty port going so that we can use our 64bit systems as 64bit. You are more than welcome to wait for the amd64 multiarch to be hammered out and to work if you'd prefer to. > Most of the Application can't be portet to a 64bit system in a fast way i think. > especially third party products. in native 64bit port you can't use them till > they > are portet. Or do anyone think that a proprietary Game (doom, quake, ....) will > be > portet? i don't think so. The doom engine is open source now, isn't it? Regardless though, GL games have other problems that have nothing to do with the mixed vs. native Debian amd64 discussion. Some non-game binary-only applications for Linux (such as Oracle) were ported to 64bit many years ago. I doubt it'd be very difficult to get it to compile 64bit correctly for an AMD64 system. In fact, I expect Oracle will do that once people start asking for it, if they havn't already. Stephen
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