From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 16:25:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040923162535.4ccb32a4.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CAchB-0004VU-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:08:13 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sf.net> wrote:
>
> > Who is doing a 32-bit userland on x86-64, and WTF for?
> > Why do they not also run a 32-bit kernel?
>
> Debian will be shipping a 32-bit userland with a 64-bit kernel. The
> reasons are long, awkward, and mostly uninteresting. The reason for
> shipping a 64-bit kernel is that it makes it easier for users who
> require large quantities of VM to obtain it.
But just like the sparc64 port, there is a 64-bit userland
compilation environment available, and debian has the means
to ship 64-bit specific packages on top of a mostly 32-bit
userland. So it is very easy for them to ship a 64-bit
netfilter utility package if they wanted to.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-23 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-23 18:07 [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 19:33 ` Chris Friesen
2004-09-23 19:36 ` Albert Cahalan
2004-09-23 19:57 ` Andy Lutomirski
2004-09-23 19:57 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-23 23:08 ` Matthew Garrett
2004-09-23 23:25 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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2004-09-22 12:15 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-22 14:04 ` David Woodhouse
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-20 23:09 Rusty Russell (IBM)
2004-09-21 12:36 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 21:58 ` Rusty Russell
2004-09-21 21:58 ` Rusty Russell
2004-09-21 22:36 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-21 22:36 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-21 23:35 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-22 0:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-09-22 0:16 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-09-22 13:37 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-22 13:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2004-09-22 14:13 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 11:36 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 11:47 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-22 11:47 ` Martin Josefsson
2004-09-22 12:05 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 12:41 ` Gene Heskett
2004-09-23 14:56 ` Martijn Lievaart
2004-09-22 14:19 ` Fao, Sean
2004-09-22 15:31 ` William Stearns
2004-09-22 15:31 ` William Stearns
2004-09-22 16:03 ` Richard B. Johnson
2004-09-22 16:27 ` William Stearns
2004-09-22 11:52 ` James Courtier-Dutton
2004-09-22 11:55 ` Marc Ballarin
2004-09-21 17:57 ` Bill Davidsen
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