Konstantin Svist wrote:
Bill Davidsen wrote:
I have read that there will be a feature to run a 64 bit kernel in a
32 bit install of FC11. I'm curious about the number of things it
would take to build such a kernel for FC10 (other than building the
kernel, obviously).
Any input from whoever is does that part for fc11?
And Konstantin, who read the wike the way I did, clarified:
From https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FeatureList
Feature 'Supported Architectures
<https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport>' summary:
"Change supported architectures and default installed kernels. The
x86_64 kernel will be installed and used on compatible hardware, even
when installing a 32-bit operating system. The PAE kernel will be used
on 32-bit hardware, where appropriate"
Note that
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ArchitectureSupport#Contingency_Plan
says
"For x86_64-on-32: do not ship x86_64 on 32-bit x86, only ship 32-bit
kernels. This contingency plan has been enacted."
I think the idea here was to use the 64-bit kernel if installing the OS
on 64-bit hardware, even if the OS software would be 32-bit. While
32-bit programs wouldn't be able to address large chunks of RAM, at
least the kernel would - so running multiple instances of 32-bit
programs could make use of the whole RAM.
I really like this idea, since it provides most of the benefit of 64 bit
operation without needing to have both the 32 and 64 bit libraries, for that
vast number of systems which have >4GB memory but no programs which use anything
like that much address space.
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