> At some point in the future, Intel are going to drop the hardware x86 > emulation and this will be required in order to run x86 binaries. > > Or just use qemu. going off on a tangent here: can you actually run qemu on ia64? it didn't work for me when i tried last week. is there any way to host an x86 kernel on an ia64 system (using qemu, uml, or whatever...) randolph -- Randolph Chung Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports http://www.tausq.org/