From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64
Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 13:39:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43173CC8.4090606@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509011923.58239@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org>
> I hope this not. As (iirc) I already said, it's impossible to combine x86 with
> anything else that's not 100% source and binary compatible with itself...
> The reason is actually simple: x86 is, or at least was, the reference
> architecture for almost all programmers.
Witih amd64 becoming so widespread, this will change.
> There are too many packages that works *just* on x86, both at source and
> binary level.
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?
-Steve
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-01 17:10 [gentoo-dev] combining x86 and amd64 Grant Goodyear
2005-09-01 17:20 ` Andrew Gaffney
2005-09-01 18:13 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-09-01 17:23 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 17:27 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 17:23 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 17:34 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-01 17:42 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 17:49 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-01 17:59 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 18:13 ` Brian Harring
2005-09-01 17:51 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-01 18:02 ` Stephen Bennett
2005-09-02 19:33 ` splite-gentoo
2005-09-03 3:54 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2005-09-01 17:39 ` Stephen P. Becker [this message]
2005-09-01 17:45 ` [gentoo-dev] " Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 17:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-01 17:52 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-01 18:58 ` Luis Medinas
2005-09-01 20:46 ` Danny van Dyk
2005-09-01 17:50 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-09-01 17:54 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 18:20 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-01 17:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 17:50 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 18:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 18:11 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 18:32 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 18:46 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 18:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:02 ` Olivier Crete
2005-09-01 18:36 ` Olivier Crete
2005-09-01 18:42 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 18:54 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:02 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:14 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:29 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-01 19:37 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:00 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-09-01 19:17 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:34 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-01 18:54 ` Stephen P. Becker
2005-09-01 19:09 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:25 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-01 20:14 ` Ian Leitch
2005-09-01 20:32 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-09-01 21:05 ` Olivier Crete
2005-09-01 22:02 ` Chris Gianelloni
2005-09-02 2:47 ` Luis Medinas
2005-09-01 20:26 ` Kevin F. Quinn
2005-09-01 21:41 ` Luis F. Araujo
2005-09-02 2:53 ` Luis Medinas
2005-09-01 18:59 ` Martin Schlemmer
2005-09-01 19:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:19 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:28 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:39 ` Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
2005-09-01 19:42 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 20:01 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:23 ` Simon Stelling
2005-09-01 17:53 ` Lares Moreau
2005-09-01 18:41 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-01 19:06 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-09-01 20:52 ` Danny van Dyk
2005-09-01 18:57 ` Mike Doty
2005-09-01 21:10 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2005-09-01 22:45 ` Christian Parpart
2005-09-02 1:38 ` Grant Goodyear
2005-09-02 4:28 ` Lance Albertson
2005-09-04 9:08 ` Christian Parpart
2005-09-04 15:38 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-09-02 12:25 ` Mike Doty
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