Coda File System

Re: Coda client, 32-bit userland on a 64-bit kernel?

From: Brett Lymn <blymn_at_baesystems.com.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:07:00 +0930
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 01:16:25PM +0200, u+codalist-p4pg_at_chalmers.se wrote:
> 
> We lack the hardware for doing regular development on x86_64
> nor are we inclined to duplicate the efforts for maintaining another
> development environment.
> Keeping userland 32-bit does indeed spare a lot of resources.
> 

Well, it is a highly unusual set up so you are probably on your own
when it comes to problems due to the mismatch of userland and kernel
bit-ness

> Would somebody give me a hand and either point in the right direction
> for the fix or explain that the solution is unavailable or too expensive?
> 

Why not just use something like qemu to do the 32bit work? Performance
should be quite acceptable on a 64bit machine.

-- 
Brett Lymn
Received on 2007-07-10 07:38:12