On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 04:30:56PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 09:19:35 -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > > 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 see four levels of support that we could reasonably have for i386: > 1. same as in recent Ubuntu: just enough packages (mostly libraries) to > configure it as a multiarch foreign architecture on an amd64 system, > and run legacy Linux i386 binaries directly or legacy Windows i386 > binaries via Wine > 2. same as (1), plus basic utilities (coreutils, etc.) and optionally an > init system, to be able to make a pure i386 container or chroot > that can run on an externally-provided amd64 kernel 2. is actually closer to what we have in Ubuntu, because builds are still self-hosted on i386 userspace (with an amd64 kernel). However, this is *strictly* limited to the base install + build-dep enclosure for the packages we want to support; autopkgtests for instance are run in a cross-environment (and if it can't cross-install, then there's no reason to care about test results for it because it has no end-user application!) -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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