Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:27:32AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: >> Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to "nice to play >> with" :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. > > What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen Allen
Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to "nice to play with" :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have to use amd64 then? Steve :)

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Hi, > > I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on > running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been > able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this exc

ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except though either a chroot/jail or vitalization. I think this is a shor