On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 7:33 PM, Paul Jakma <paul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 18 Nov 2009, Jeff Garzik wrote: > >> Running a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userland is a common practice on >> non-x86 platforms, and non-Linux OS's. > > FWIW, it works on Linux too. I ran F10 i386 on a x86_64 kernel for a while. > About the only thing that doesn't work right is yum wrt kernel updates. > >> For a lot of tasks, you simply do not need 64-bit pointers and a 64-bit >> process address space. Both executable code and in-memory data structures >> tend to be smaller on 32-bit. > > Indeed. > > It would be nice if i386-userspace/x64-kernel were officially support.. such a setup does not make much sense, when your hardware supports x86_64 not using it for userspace is a waste .... -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
