Re: amd64 kernel, i386 userland

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 05:33:41PM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote:
 > Things would be much easier if the kernel searched /emul/netbsd64 
 > before / for native binaries. Of course such a behavior cannot be made 
 > default because of the performance penalty. But a compile time option
 > would be nice without causing any performance harm to people that do
 > not want it.

A better way to deal with this in the long run (since TRYEMULROOT is a
hack and doesn't necessarily behave as expected) is to change the
default elf interpreter names for both i386 and amd64 so they can be
installed together, then always install both.

Or, just forget about i386 :-)

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David A. Holland
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