Running an amd64 kernel on an i386 /dev is an uncommon occurence at best. 
   I think it's great for us to have a recomended way of handling it, but I 
   don't think we need emulation-based tricks nor do we need to explicitly 
   support it in the common case.


i think that this case *is* going to become far more common and
it has previous been a goal of the project to fully support this
for all 32/64 bit compatible systems (mips, ppc, sparc, x86, sh5..
any others?)


.mrg.