Re: amd64 questions

[J. Ryan Earl]

Andi Kleen wrote:

> It is a subsystem bug really. These subsystems were all designed to
> not require emulation, but the designers weren't aware of all the
> requirements for this and broke it for AMD64/IA64. Unfortunately the
> interfaces were done in a way that it would be very complicated and a
> lot of work to write an emulation layer, because they're extremly
> emulation unfriendly. Maybe it would be still possible to write an
> emulation layer, but easier is it to just use static 64bit executables 
> or hacked 32bit executables.
>
> I don't have any plans to write emulation layers for such hopeless
> cases on my own, but just declared these subsystems as broken.
>  
So let me get this straight, we can't use LVM with AMD64 under the 2.6 
line either?  Or we can if we use AMD64 [DM] libraries with a AMD64 
kernel?  DM = Device Mapper right?

-ryan
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