On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 11:56:58AM +0200, Harald Arnesen wrote: > Adam Borowski [2017-07-23 00:01]: > > If the machine has >2GB ram, running a 32-bit kernel should be a crime. > > I run 32-bit Devuan on one Core2 machine. Why? I can't get Xerox' > proprietary printer driver for their Phaser 6010N color laser to work on > 64-bit. Several receipes on how to do this, none of them work.
Printer drivers work in userspace, not in kernel. 64-bit x86 kernels can run i386 binaries just fine -- usually better than a 32-bit kernel would, as there's no mucking with inadequate address space. And on De??an, there's multiarch so you can mix-and-match binaries. I don't know much about printing (I don't own a printer nor have a reason to use one more than once per ~2 years), but AFAIK printer drivers are separate processes so there's no ABI problem whatsoever. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ A dumb species has no way to open a tuna can. ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ A smart species invents a can opener. ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ A master species delegates. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
