From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EAtBe-00066W-Mj for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Sep 2005 17:49:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j81HjadU027651; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:45:36 GMT Received: from relay-pt4.poste.it (relay-pt4.poste.it [62.241.4.118]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j81HgpuN012738 for ; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 17:42:51 GMT Received: from enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org (151.44.18.170) by relay-pt4.poste.it (7.2.063) (authenticated as emanuela.zanon@poste.it) id 430B04100002BC39 for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:45:20 +0200 From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' =?iso-8859-1?q?Petten=F2?=" To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 19:45:10 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050901171028.GW18440@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2168613.9t9gNfClYv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509011945.20040@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org> X-Archives-Salt: 7b773ecb-7c00-4bb5-bb54-a1bdcf8e4747 X-Archives-Hash: f66ed846c1cfcc4e4cfa7fc41d14d61c --nextPart2168613.9t9gNfClYv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:39, Stephen P. Becker wrote: > Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change. You think it's a thing that changes in 2 days? > Doesn't the amd64 team have a set of 32-bit compat libs just to run > binary packages? When running 32-bit code, isn't amd64 basically just a > glorified athlon-xp? Kernel-level code doesn't work. Some 32-bit binaries fails to work, and the= =20 emul-libs are NOT a way to say "it's 32-bit"... There are TOO many differences... About p.mask.. no I don't like that solution, p.mask is good for a platform= =20 profile (for example bsd's, darwin's or linux's), but not to arch level, we= =20 have -* keywords for that, haven't we? =2D-=20 Diego "Flameeyes" Petten=F2 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/ (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM) --nextPart2168613.9t9gNfClYv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDFz4we2h1+2mHVWMRAoPqAJ4iyuBSqEjptLLYz31InnLAn9udQACeNjQc QHnhc/llmQAZlrKcFYpYqGE= =kajb -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2168613.9t9gNfClYv-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list