Re: [xine-user] error playing ram stream on AMD64 system

[Michael R. <mr...@us...>]

Hi,

> > I am having trouble playing a ram stream. I have installed the
> > essential codec package from the mplayer website. I still get this
> > error.
> >
> > Error loading library: sipr.so.6.0
> >
> > Of note is that I am running on a 64 bit system, not a 32 bit system.
> > Specifically the Debian AMD64 Sid port...
>
> You can not use 32 bit libraries in a 64 bit application.

Right. We need an AMD64 guru to fix this for us, if it is fixable at all.
AMD64 can of course execute 32 bit code, but the question is whether you need 
to do a mode switch for that and whether the switching command is privileged.
Maybe a nice kernel hacker stops by and helps us out, because it would be 
really cool to use the 32 bit Windows and Real libraries on a 64 bit Linux.

Michael

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die_if_kernel("Penguin instruction from Penguin mode??!?!", regs);
	2.2.16 /usr/src/linux/arch/sparc/kernel/traps.c