Features/ArchitectureSupport - x86_64 kernel 32 bit userspace

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 09:56:20AM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Matthew Garrett (mjg at redhat.com) said: 
> > > Should work (solaris had a similar setup and they supported it)
> > 
> > You lose vm86() mode, so dosemu won't work. You also have to hope that 
> > all the ioctl compatibility works - historically this hasn't been the 
> > case for all subsystems.
> 
> But any such subsystems where this is the case are already broken
> on ppc64/sparc64.

Yeah, but I suspect we have more USB scanner users on x86 than ppc64 
(for instance).

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