x86-64 on i386 (was Re: Promoting i386 version over x86_64?)
Paul Jakma
paul at dishone.st
Wed Dec 16 00:30:11 UTC 2009
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
My data-point is that I ran an x86-64 kernel on i386 F10 for a few
months until I got tired of yum not being able to update kernel
packages. The kernel side apparently works fine AFAICT. The .1% is
yum.
regards,
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