[arch-dev-public] [signoff] perl 5.14.0-1

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jun 1 19:30:57 EDT 2011


On 02/06/11 01:48, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Dale Blount<dale at archlinux.org>  wrote:
>>>>
>>>> what architecture? I didn't rebuilt frozen-bubble particularly but I'm
>>>> running it fine on x86_64
>>> Allan runs i686 userspace AFAIK (with an x86_64 kernel).
>>>
>>
>> Is this easy to do or documented anywhere?  I assume you'd still get the
>> benefits of large memory support without PAE and still be able to run
>> flash and other things natively which don't run well under multilib.
> He blogged about it:
> http://allanmcrae.com/2010/02/transparent-x86_64-kernel-on-an-i686-userland/
> http://allanmcrae.com/2009/06/using-an-x86_64-kernel-on-an-i686-userland/
>

There is actually a much easier way to do this than that bash32 thing... 
   Just stick "linux32" in front of /sbin/agetty and your login manager 
in /etc/inittab.

Allan




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