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



Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:

> 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.

Don't install it if you don't need it.

Matthias



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