On Wed, 16 Dec 2009, Debarshi Ray wrote:
He is just pointing out that there is lot more work to do than you think. In other words he is contesting your claim that "The kernel side apparently works fine AFAICT".
Well, I don't really know how to else to counter "there may be unknown bugs". Kernel sub-system interfaces generally are well-designed and specified (i.e. explicit widths of fields). Booting a system and using it for a while exercises many of the important ones.
Could there be bugs in some lesser-used, oddball interface? Of course (and I am sure there are - I think I gave an example in a thread earlier this year). They're likely to reasonably trivial bugs though (oversights in the interface specification, e.g. a 'long' instead of a __u32, etc). If there really are interfaces that are so messed up that they'd be hard to fix up, then that's probably a warning sign that the code may have deeper, bigger problems.
People who run into such bugs can always go back to a 32bit kernel (standard or PAE) until it's fixed, if it even affects them. They're put back in the same position as they're in now, which I'm sure must be acceptable.
Anyway.. I'll try look into this again later next year, and see if I can fix the "bugs" (in the RFE sense for yum, libvirt) I found. Was simply hoping to get other people interested in 32-on-64, no more or less.
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