Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932133AbVIJSb3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:31:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932138AbVIJSb3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:31:29 -0400 Received: from mailout08.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.20]:24721 "EHLO mailout08.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932133AbVIJSb2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:31:28 -0400 Message-ID: <43232660.5070504@t-online.de> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 20:30:56 +0200 From: Harald Dunkel User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Gifford CC: Jeff Garzik , Andi Kleen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pure 64 bootloaders References: <43228E4E.4050103@jg555.com> <43229BA4.4010306@pobox.com> In-Reply-To: <43229BA4.4010306@pobox.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig2D8A3413F32F2A4D113E8D9F" X-ID: VUNPhYZZweUYcXQ2xirLJHbmoY-evy0XNIry6rer5cV61wzx7jzEsV X-TOI-MSGID: 8ad84b1a-5fdd-4ee7-b555-c3fd56748e6d Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1696 Lines: 58 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig2D8A3413F32F2A4D113E8D9F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >> Jim Gifford writes: >> >> >>> I have been working on a project to create a Pure 64 bit distro of >>> linux, nothing 32 bit in the system. I can accomplish that with no >> >> >> >> Hopefully you're using /lib64 for that, otherwise your >> packages will be incompatible to everybody else and not FHS compliant. >> If you don't please don't submit any patches to hardcode this to >> upstream packages. > > > /lib64 is an awful scheme. I'd avoid it. > Indeed. It just helps to keep unclean 32bit applications alive. Maybe you would like to check Debian for amd64? The 32bit stuff is purely optional (except for the boot loaders, AFAIK). http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ Regards Harri --------------enig2D8A3413F32F2A4D113E8D9F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDIyZkUTlbRTxpHjcRAmYsAJ9FVluR2vbHNOH3DhFJ7+L27dCuCgCfRj3y FKHig76Q65AxCOt7XI2yfDU= =ePbq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig2D8A3413F32F2A4D113E8D9F-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/