x86 libs on x86_64 - when will they be gone?

Arjan van de Ven arjan at fenrus.demon.nl
Sat May 20 21:05:00 UTC 2006


>         Suse automatically detects the proper arch in the boot-loader
>         for
>         some time now (you can override it, too, and install a i386
>         system on a
>         x86_64 machine).
> 
> Solaris also does this, boots off a i386 kernel and installs a 64bit
> kernel. 


that's different. For fedora... what'd be needed is a bootloader level
hack (seems SuSE already has one) and about 4 weeks of sleepless nights
for Jeremy ;)




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