On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Russell Coker wrote: > You can run a 32bit application in a chroot or in a DomU under a 64bit > environment. > > But the option of having a full 32bit environment is also useful. Admittedly > it's becomming less useful as RAM >4G is becomming more common which allows > more application address space if the kernel is 64bit.
How is this relevant to the thread? We are talking about an environment where Linux (or other kernel or a hypervisor) is not yet running; there are no chroots, the running programs (GRUB, UEFI firmware) use much less than even 500MB of RAM, let alone anywhere the various x86 limits. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6eba+4-th_mezr1rbmp-eysdtf9vknoe1fcs2obvdx...@mail.gmail.com
