Re: [BProc] BProc with mixed architecture

[Erik H. <er...@he...>]

On 9/22/05, Jeff Rasmussen <jra...@ln...> wrote:
> Does anyone know of a way to run bproc in a mixed 32/64 bit
> architecture?
>
> I need a 64bit host with 64bit kernel to be able to boot both 64bit and
> 32bit nodes. Anyone know if this is possible with the current software
> stack?

It's not... and for good reason.  If you look under the covers
(VMADump process layout and message packing details), x86 and x86_64
are almost as different as x86 and ppc64.  The register files are
different, memory space details are different, etc.  A 32 bit process
dumped on x86_64 is not directly undumpable on x86 and vice versa.

- Erik