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Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts
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John Paul Adrian Glaubitz |
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Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] Deprecate support for 32-bit x86 and arm hosts |
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Fri, 03 Mar 2023 12:57:31 +0100 |
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Hi Thomas!
On Fri, 2023-03-03 at 12:22 +0100, Thomas Huth wrote:
> The ticket is very long and hard to read, but ... oh my, does that mean you
> need to compile qemu-user in 32-bit mode on a 64-bit x86 host to properly
> run 32-bit binaries from other architectures? ... uh, that's ugly ... and
> sounds like bug in QEMU's user mode emulation ... and what if you're running
> a distro (or different 64-bit host architecutre) that does not support
> 32-bit userspace libraries anymore? Then you're lost?
Perhaps the explanation here by Florian Weimer is a bit easier to understand:
> https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87bm56vqg4.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de/
Adrian
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