[Bug 20162] Re: Wishlist: Should a new linux-image-k8 could be provided in breezy?

[Ben Collins]

We currently will not provide a 64-bit kernel for 32-bit userland for
several reasons:

1) There are many ioctl's in the kernel that do not have the supporting
32-bit -> 64-bit thunking needed to work with this setup. usblp comes to
mind.

2) Development systems will likely get confused when the userspace is
32-bit, but "uname -m" reports x86_64. This can be overcome with the
user prefixing build commands with the linux32 binary, but that doesn't
alleviate the potential for the increase in ambiguous "my program wont
compile" support questions we'll see because of this.

** Changed in: linux-meta (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: linux-meta => linux-source-2.6.15
       Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected

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Wishlist: Should a new linux-image-k8 could be provided in breezy?
https://launchpad.net/bugs/20162