Re: amd64 as default architecture

[Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li>]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 08:51:17PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > On 2012-05-22 20:40 +0200, Simon McVittie wrote:
> > > On 22/05/12 19:24, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > >
> > >> and anything that uses libx86 won't work either (#492470).
...
> > The lrmi backend uses vm86 mode which is not supported under an x86_64
> > kernel.
>  
> So the x86emu backend should be built too if there are any 64-bit
> systems that need libx86 - and maybe for other reasons as well.
> That's not a big deal, though, surely?

Which backend to use is a compile time option, so this would be
switching to always use the x86emu backend. Not a big issue if we're
going to drop 32 bit kernels entirely, a performance impact on those
machines if we're not.

J.

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