Bug#708070: enable x32 support for the amd64 kernels

[Robert de Bath <robert$@debath.co.uk>]

On Thu, 24 Jul 2014, Ian Campbell wrote:

> On Thu, 2014-07-24 at 13:20 +0200, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> > I was just hit by bug https://bugs.debian.org/736659 after installing
> > gcc-multilib and later rebuilding my initramfs.
> >
> > I don't think this situation of having several x32 packages on the
> > archive (which other packages depend on) while the official debian
> > kernel don't supports x32 at all is sustainable in the long run.
> >
> > Please consider enabling CONFIG_X86_X32 on 3.14 and superior.
>
> I think Ben has been pretty clear in his first reply to this bugreport
> about what needs to happen first.

Yes, he's made it clear that such a kernel would be considered as much of
a risk as the amd64 syscalls were originally. So I've been quietly waiting
for them to be treated the same way ... When are we going to get a special
variant of the kernel package with this attribute turned on ?

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Rob.                          (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
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