Re: Request for help: upgrade Woody -> Sarge
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:45:13PM +0200, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote:
> One of these things is the upgrade path for machines running with a
> 64bit capable HP PA-Risc CPUs. If a HPPA is running woody with a 64bit
> kernel, a newer kernel than 2.4.17 (woody distri kernel) is needed by
> libc. That's the reason why we provide upgrade kernel. All these things
> are described on the release notes at [1] and [2] we are currently
> working on.
I keep hearing that 64-bit thing, but I don't understand it. Why are
32-bit machines OK and 64-bit ones not? My understanding is that the
problem is that libc depends on a very recent kernel version. So the
problem should be the same on 32 and 64 bit. Can you explain?
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