On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 09:19:35AM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Well, maybe not a strong view, but a sense of vague unease--possibly an > ill-informed one. As someone who has used SIMH for "real" work[1], I > have to ask how someone would conduct an install to a 32-bit x86 machine > running under emulation, assuming no OS on the simulated machine.
I occasionally use 32-bit x86 even today (mostly for not very good historical reasons, but nevertheless), and I do it by using a 32-bit container on a 64-bit x86 machine instead. It's much faster to run, and it doesn't depend on installer support. There are doubtless edge cases where you need a completely separate kernel, but they aren't really ones I run into. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
