[linux-audio-user] AMD64 with Linux audio applications?

[Mario Lang]

jjbenham at chicagoguitar.com (Jeremiah Benham) writes:

> On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 10:11:48AM -0800, Noah Roberts wrote:
>> I have an amd64 running in 64 bit mode.  There honestly isn't much
>> reason to get a 64 if you are going to run in 32 bit mode...They are
>> way more expensive than the 32 bit counterparts and don't offer enough
>> extra in 32 bit mode.
>
> I also considered going to 64 bit. What flavor of linux are you using? I
> know you can't run 32 bit and 64 bit applications on the same machine.
> That is unless you have both the 32 bit and 64 bit libc installed. That
> seems confusing as if you are just asking for trouble.

Not really.  You usually solve this issue by either creating a 64-bit
chroot in a 32-bit base system or a 32-bit chroot in a 64-bit base
system.  These chroots can be very useful since some apps just don't
work in 64-bit mode yet.  We are using this method at work to make
32-bit commercial apps run on our 64-bit x84_64 machines, and it
works very well.  I wouldn't call it confusing.  Its actually very logical
as soon as you start to grasp the chroot concept.

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