Re: [PATCH] Warn people that ipchains and ipfwadm are going away.

[David S. Miller]

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:08:13 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Albert Cahalan <albert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Who is doing a 32-bit userland on x86-64, and WTF for?
> > Why do they not also run a 32-bit kernel?
> 
> Debian will be shipping a 32-bit userland with a 64-bit kernel. The
> reasons are long, awkward, and mostly uninteresting. The reason for
> shipping a 64-bit kernel is that it makes it easier for users who
> require large quantities of VM to obtain it.

But just like the sparc64 port, there is a 64-bit userland
compilation environment available, and debian has the means
to ship 64-bit specific packages on top of a mostly 32-bit
userland.  So it is very easy for them to ship a 64-bit
netfilter utility package if they wanted to.
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