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Re: 64 bit kernel, 32-bit userland



On 12/01/08 11:14, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 12/01/08 02:01, Sven Joachim wrote:
On 2008-12-01 02:17 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote:

$ grep IA32_EMULATION .config
# CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION is not set

So your kernel cannot execute 32-bit binaries which is a "small" problem
since all the userland is 32-bit.

Guess not...

Does this mean that "make menuconfig" also needs ARCH=x86_64?

I would recommend to use that, although it is not strictly necessary.
If you do not use it, you're configuring your kernel for i386, and the
later "ARCH=x86_64 make" will run "make silentoldconfig" asking you the
questions that are different for x86_64.

The real problem, though, is that CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION defaults to "N"
so you have to be careful to explicitly enable it.  Apparently the
kernel developers are silly monkeys who believe that most users of
x86_64 never need to run 32-bit binaries.

You da man, Sven!

$ uname -m
x86_64

But now I notice that audio in Flash stutters a *lot*.

(I did, though, upgrade from .25 to .26 at the same time. Maybe that's the problem?)

--
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

How does being physically handicapped make me Differently-Abled?
What different abilities do I have?


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