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



On Wed, 2015-08-26 at 13:51 +0500, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> 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).

Explained in https://bugs.debian.org/708070

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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