On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 10:59 -0500, Paul A Houle wrote: > Other operating systems install 32-bit applications under a 64-bit > kernel. For instance, Solaris 10 installs a largely 32-bit userspace > on both Sparc64 and AMD64. This has the nice effect that the same > Solaris 10 disk installs on both x86-32 and x86-64. This is probably a > good choice for SPARC, but AMD64 gets a performance boost from the > extra registers. Fedora does the same on ppc64 -- most userspace is ppc32. -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
