Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make the ELF loader aware of backwards compatibility

[Andreas Färber]

Am 28.02.2009 um 16:30 schrieb Blue Swirl:

> On 2/28/09, Alexander Graf <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Most 64 bit architectures I'm aware of support running 32 bit code
> > of the same architecture as well.
>
> For Sparc64 this is only true for userland, kernel level code is not
> compatible at all. Sparc64 kernel can run Sparc64 and Sparc32
> binaries, but a Sparc32 kernel will crash on Sparc64.

Same for ppc. To install Linux, you need to type "install64" at the  
prompt, the default "install" crashes on a G5.

Andreas