x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Tue Dec 15 21:40:19 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 09:28:10PM +0000, Paul Jakma wrote:

> And again, far from being some incredibly difficult thing that I'm  
> asking for, the support is pretty much 99.9% there..

And the remaining 0.1% of the work is probably the other 99.9% of the 
time. I think you massively underestimate the number of corner cases 
present in an utterly untested configuration.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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