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Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2006 13:56:39 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
       Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>,
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Subject: Re: AMD64: 64 bit kernel 32 bit userland - some pending questions
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On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 01:55:04PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tuesday 06 June 2006 13:51, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday 06 June 2006 12:42, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > > Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:
> > > 
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > I would like to use an AMD64 Opteron System with a 64 bit Linux Kernel,
> > > > but a 32 bit userland (Debian Sarge). I have a few questions about this:
> > > 
> > > The main caveat is that iptables and ipsec need 64bit executables
> > > to be set up. The rest should work.
> > 
> > Recently I've had a problem running wine with a 16-bit windows application
> > on a 64-bit kernel.  I guess it's a wine's problem, then?
> 
> At some point it worked - i ran 16bit solitaire and some other programs,
> but it's not regularly tested.  When it works on a 32bit kernel with
> the same wine version it should work on the 64bit kernel too. If not
> it's likely a kernel bug.

It should work fine.

If not, what is the actual bug/error message? :)

Ciao, Marcus