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Registered: 2011-11-27

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Regarding 64bit kernel

@kultex:

Addressing your sticky post about meltdown and spectre, I recall @mojo has said there's simply NO slitaz 64bit as such nor it's worth for him to work on, being the current "slitaz-rolling-64" iso more of a falacy: just a "64 bit kernel" made with a cross-compiler or something like that, but NO 64bit packages at all, including glibc. So no 64 bit programs can actually run on it anyways.

Unless I got it all wrong...

But, is it true? updating to slitaz x86 to 64bit kernel only installs a "64bit kernel" which helps protect agains meltdown and spectre, but otherwise it's just plain slitaz 32bit that can only run 32bit programs?

BTW, any word from @alanyih 's work on a "64bit slitaz"?

kultex

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Registered: 2011-03-28

Posts: 1,175

Re: Regarding 64bit kernel

you got it right....

here is his repo and you see, that it stopped with 3.16.36

http://slitaz64.96.lt/packages/

so nothing interesting regarding meltdown and spectre....

you can follow his work here - he was mainly interested to get docker in slitaz

http://forum.slitaz.org/topic/slitaz-x86_64