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SubjectRe: amd64 questions
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?

-ryan
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