My new project is to make a bootable live iso of Debian x32 with XFCE :) I forgot about this port
On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 2:56 PM Sven Joachim <svenj...@gmx.de> wrote: > On 2022-11-29 11:24 -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > > I'm running a Debian Unstable machine. I use it for Chroots. I noticed > > x32 is not available when I attempted to setup a chroot with > > debootstrap: > > > > $ debootstrap --arch=x32 --keyring > > /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg \ > > --variant=buildd --exclude=debfoster unstable debian-x32 > > http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports > > > > E: Unable to execute target architecture > > > > In the past I seem to recall I had a x32 chroot for testing. And the > > Debian Ports page shows x32 as a work in progress. Cf., > > https://www.debian.org/ports/ . > > > > Has x32 been dropped? Or am I doing something wrong? > > Debian kernels disable x32 support by default for security reasons. You > can enable it at boot time via the "syscall.x32=y" kernel parameter. > Here is the patch that Debian applies to the upstream kernel sources: > > > https://sources.debian.org/src/linux/6.0.10-1/debian/patches/features/x86/x86-make-x32-syscall-support-conditional.patch/ > > Cheers, > Sven > >
