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Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland



Brian Buhrow <buhrow%nfbcal.org@localhost> wrote:

>       hello.  The solution I use for this problem is to install native amd64
> userland binaries from the base distribution over the machine I want to use
> with more  than 4GB of RAM.  I leav everything in usr/pkg and /usr/local as
> 32-bit and install the netbsd-32 compatibility libraries.  

This is of course where I am heading, but having the ability to test the
new kernel without modifying all userland first helps a lot for a smooth
transition.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu%netbsd.org@localhost


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