Bug#379090: Still no news on 64bit i386 kernels
Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 02:01:22PM +0100, Frederik Schueler wrote:
[...]
>> Adding amd64 as subarch to i386 would mean 3 additional flavors to
>> build, raising the overall build-time of that package by 1.5-2h.
>
> Which doesn't sound like a blocker to me, FWIW. Also, what about just
> providing the "amd64" flavor for i386 without the xen/vserver flavors? In
> particular, I don't see any need for the xen flavor, wouldn't xen work just
> fine with amd64 as the dom0 install and i386 in domX without any kernel
> images installed in the domX?
Yes. It can. I use it exactly this way here.
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