ia32-libs [was: Bringing Wine into Main]

[Luke Yelavich]

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On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 04:39:43AM EST, Karl Magdsick wrote:
> <rant>
> With the performance and other technical advantages of long mode over
> 32-bit mode, and the majority of x86 CPUs sold over the past couple of
> years supporting long mode, it would be nice to see the popular
> open-source *nix distributions (as well as our friends in Redmond)
> ship OS installation media with dual kernels and install the 64-bit
> kernel if the hardware supports it.  (I believe our friends in
> Cupertino already do something like this.)

This is in fact incorrect, at least until OS X 10.6 is released. All releases of OS X up to the latest 10.5 release use 32-bit kernels, at least on Intel hardware. PAE is then used to provide access 
to >4GB of RAM. In 10.6 from what I've read, there will be a true 64-bit kernel.

Luke
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