Kernel Specifications - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual

Not all of these variables are needed for every program. Adapt them to the respective
program.
CC="gcc -m32"
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib;"
make
make install

16.4 Kernel Specifications

The 64-bit kernels for x86_64 offer both a 64-bit and a 32-bit kernel ABI (application
binary interface). The latter is identical with the ABI for the corresponding 32-bit kernel.
This means that the 32-bit application can communicate with the 64-bit kernel in the
same way as with the 32-bit kernel.
The 32-bit emulation of system calls for a 64-bit kernel does not support all the APIs
used by system programs. This depends on the platform. For this reason, a small number
of applications, like lspci, must be compiled
A 64-bit kernel can only load 64-bit kernel modules that have been specially compiled
for this kernel. It is not possible to use 32-bit kernel modules.
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Some applications require separate kernel-loadable modules. If you intend to
use such a 32-bit application in a 64-bit system environment, contact the
provider of this application and Novell to make sure that the 64-bit version of
the kernel-loadable module and the 32-bit compiled version of the kernel API
are available for this module.
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