On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 09:18:21PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2012-05-22 20:40 +0200, Simon McVittie wrote: > > > On 22/05/12 19:24, Sven Joachim wrote: > > > >> and anything that uses libx86 won't work either (#492470). > > > > Is this the right bug? According to the reporter's reportbug System > > Information, he's running libx86/i386 on one of the i386 kernel > > flavours, > > Oh, indeed. > > > and I don't see any indication that amd64 is involved at all. > > The lrmi backend uses vm86 mode which is not supported under an x86_64 > kernel. So the x86emu backend should be built too if there are any 64-bit systems that need libx86 - and maybe for other reasons as well. That's not a big deal, though, surely?
By the way, lack of VM86 mode under Long Mode is a restriction of the AMD64 architecture definition and not a kernel limitation. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120522195117.gs4...@decadent.org.uk