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Re: Minutes from the "32bit architectures in Debian"-bof



On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 09:38:04AM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > > Specific issues:
> > > - for i386, there is still sold new hardware with 32bit-only. Are
> > >   there open issues for i386 (apart from the 32bit-generic ones)?
> > 
> > FWIW, for x32, the security team would prefer if support in the Debian
> > amd64 kernel would remain guarded by a boot-time option.
> 
> You mean that on an kernel from an amd64-installation, 32bit binaries
> could only be used with an appropriate boot option? This however isn't
> any issue with the i386-architecture, but only on using this arch in
> an chroot in an amd64-installation.
x32 is not just i386 binaries (though I'm curious why this should be
disabled by default).

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