In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paolo Alexis Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On 5/26/05, Chris Boot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Can I upgrade the kernel without upgrading the userspace apps? > >If you'd run in 64 bit mode - No.
In fact, you can. I built a 64 bits kernel on my amd64 workstation, then installed that kernel (dpkg -i --force-architecture linux.deb) on a 32 bits sarge installation. Ofcourse that box does have an em64t capable processor. It actually boots, and works fine. You then have a 32 bits userland with a 64 bits kernel. Advantages are that you can use 4 GB of memory per process (no more 3/1 GB split), and you can better take advantage of a lot of memory - no more low memory, high memory, PAE, etc. Mike. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
