Hi Stefan, On Tuesday 30 March 2010, 08:07:19 Stefan Seyfried wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:49:01 +0200
"Hans-Peter Jansen" <hpj@urpla.net> wrote:
Or is it possible to run an x86_64 kernel with a i586 userspace?
Yes, this should work without problems. Everything else is a bug. Of course you get problems if you try the other way round ;)
Okay, I'm going to try this.
Unfortunately, for some reason I have to avoid upgrading this system to 11.2 or x86_64 by all means.
Interesting. What are reasons nowadays to not use x86_64?
In one word: recreance. This is the one and only stage before hitting a heavily hammered production system in a company, that feeds many families including my own. Needless to say, both serve a quite complex setup (ldap, database, nfs server) with all the evil stuff running (VMware-Server, ancient basic interpreter with relational database kernel driving an mission critical order system, lots of bells and whistles). This company is driven by Unix since 20 years, and by SuSE-Linux since 13 years (including fat diskless SuSE desktop setup also running VMware WinBlows instances). No desktop ever saw a harddisk except a single Win95 test system (that soon failed miserably..). Excuse my degression, please (but a little historical feedback doesn't harm, does it?) I always need to balance the contradiction of decrufting and conservative modification policy. Thus I'm willing to change kernels. Before switching the userspace, I have to get rid from the VMware cruft (it's sucking rocks, anyway..), get the XP instances running smoothly with kvm, and get the basic dbms build and running on 64 bit (every major gcc release results in major hassles to get this beast compiled properly again..).
BTW: my 11.1 /proc/config.gz (on x86_64) shows that all IOMMU options are enabled, but I cannot judge if it works, because my board does not seem to have one.
Cool, sounds nice. BTW, I've an experimental 2.6.33.1 build running on BS, is there a proper way to build a 64 bit kernel in a 32 bit environment (I try to not upset zypper and keep general "zypper dup" applicability)? Thanks, Pete -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org