[Pkg-fglrx-devel] Bug#651775: Bug#651775: Fails to build for 64-bit kernel on i386

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-11-19 at 10:11 +0100, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
> Am 18.11.2012 21:33, schrieb Ben Hutchings:
> >> fglrx will never work on this crap mix of amd64 kernel and i386
> >> userland, but there is no working conflicts which could be added
> >
> > It's not crap, it's a generally supported and useful configuration.  If
> > fglrx-modules-dkms:amd64 was installable on i386 with amd64 as foreign
> > architecture, then I think this could be considered solved.  Possibly
> > fixing #693634 will do this.
> >
> > Ben.
> >
> 
> We may have got different opionions about it, okay.
> 
> The problem is not building fglrx on this combination (easy patchable), 
> but that it is working (from the closed source part of fglrx).
> Since AMD also do not want to support it in any way it is the best to 
> not commit any patch that it is buildable on amd64/i386 mix, since users 
> just would get an non-working system.

So they don't support running proprietary 32-bit binaries on a 64-bit
distribution?  I bet they do.

The difference here is that the package manager considers i386 to be the
primary, rather than secondary, userland architecture.  But for any
individual piece of software this is irrelevant; it's only important
that the right libraries are installed.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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