On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Roberto Ragusa mail@robertoragusa.it wrote:
Bill Nottingham wrote:
- install x86_64 kernel on 32-bit OS where appropriate
This is really exciting, but I remember to have read somewhere of some compatibility issues.
Should work (solaris had a similar setup and they supported it)
In particular, could someone report success/failure for the nvidia binary module? Is it true that the x86_64 kernel part depends on x86_64 GL/X11 part which depends on x86_64 X11, which depends on x86_64 glibc... and so the system is basically being entirely switched to x86_64?
No, but imho if you have a x86_64 capable machine you should be using x86_64
I know the policy about binary modules: the vendors have to cope with their problems and Fedora will not slow down to help them.
But it looks interesting anyway to know for sure what happens.
Any other similar problems to investigate? I think free stuff is compatible or fixable (kvm? fuse? openjdk? ...),
kvm should work fine, same for fuse. dunno why you ask about openjdk its just a regular userspace app.
but there is also widely used proprietary software (ATI closed source driver? vmware? ...).
No idea, but they should be fine too. (besides nobody is stopping you from using a i586 if you really need/want that or just move to x86_64 ;) )