Re: Proprietary kernel module with Debian i386 system and AMD64 kernel

[Jérôme Warnier <jwarnier@beeznest.net>]

Le samedi 22 octobre 2005 à 03:01 -0500, Alexander Charbonnet a écrit :
> When you're running a 64-bit kernel, like kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8, you 
> must use a 64-bit kernel module.
That's what I thought, but it was not perfectly clear to me and as the
machine is pretty far from me, I wanted to avoid any problem.
All this 64bits kernel mode and and 32bits user mode is quite confusing for me...

> On Saturday 22 October 2005 02:50 am, Jérôme Warnier wrote:
> > On one of my systems, I'm using Debian for i386, and I'm thinking about
> > going to kernel package "kernel-image-2.6.8-11-amd64-k8".
> > The main reason I'm using Debian for i386 is that I need a proprietary
> > kernel module.
> > This kernel module is available for both x86 and AMD64, so I wonder
> > which one I should use with the above-mentioned kernel.
> >
> > Thanks