Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:54:55 -0500 | From | "J. Ryan Earl" <> | Subject | Re: amd64 questions |
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Andi Kleen wrote:
>It is a subsystem bug really. These subsystems were all designed to >not require emulation, but the designers weren't aware of all the >requirements for this and broke it for AMD64/IA64. Unfortunately the >interfaces were done in a way that it would be very complicated and a >lot of work to write an emulation layer, because they're extremly >emulation unfriendly. Maybe it would be still possible to write an >emulation layer, but easier is it to just use static 64bit executables >or hacked 32bit executables. > >I don't have any plans to write emulation layers for such hopeless >cases on my own, but just declared these subsystems as broken. > > So let me get this straight, we can't use LVM with AMD64 under the 2.6 line either? Or we can if we use AMD64 [DM] libraries with a AMD64 kernel? DM = Device Mapper right?
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