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64-bit pure distros?64-bit pure distros?Posted Sep 23, 2010 14:09 UTC (Thu) by mrshiny (subscriber, #4266)Parent article: The hazards of 32/64-bit compatibility
These days it seems to me that everything I run is 64-bit. My two proprietary software concessions (video driver, and flash) are 64-bit. Would it be feasible for popular distros to offer 64-bit pure systems, and configure out this compat layer from the kernel? I'd imagine that, build-wise, it would be pretty much equivalent to the normal 64+32 distro, except with a different kernel image and the package manager just wouldn't install the 32-bit binaries.
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64-bit pure distros? Posted Sep 23, 2010 15:26 UTC (Thu) by dag- (subscriber, #30207) [Link]
I was considering the same thing. Is it possible to disable the 32bit compatibility mode by booting with some kernel boot parameter (or manipulating /proc after boot) ?
64-bit pure distros? Posted Sep 23, 2010 18:37 UTC (Thu) by dtlin (✭ supporter ✭, #36537) [Link] This has been brought up before. See the first part of http://lwn.net/Articles/405955/, which instructs the kernel to execute everything looking like a 32-bit ELF using /bin/echo (which obviously doesn't execute much).
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