On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:36 +1100, Andreas Fischer wrote: > > So basically to answer your question, no. If you want to move to a > 64bit > kernel, you need to move everything to 64bit.
I'm not sure if this has been clearly answered - perhaps I deleted the answers from my inbox ;). Anyhow, the 64 bit kernels can happily run 32-bit userspace applications. IIR the details correctly, its just the kernel calling api that gets modified in lib, or possibly nothing is modified, and the kernel side does all the thunking required. Individal apps need all their libraries to be available in the same bit-width as they are compiled in. So if you have a 32-bit gtk app, you will need 32-bit libgtk etc etc etc. Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt>.
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