Adam Borowski [2017-07-23 12:57]:

>> > I run 32-bit Devuan on one Core2 machine. Why? I can't get Xerox'
>> > proprietary printer driver for their Phaser 6010N color laser to work on
>> > 64-bit. Several receipes on how to do this, none of them work.

> Printer drivers work in userspace, not in kernel. 64-bit x86 kernels can
> run i386 binaries just fine -- usually better than a 32-bit kernel would,
> as there's no mucking with inadequate address space.

Yes, I can probably run a 64-bit kernel on this machine, and still have
an exclusively 32-bit userspace.

> And on De??an, there's multiarch so you can mix-and-match binaries.
> I don't know much about printing (I don't own a printer nor have a reason
> to use one more than once per ~2 years), but AFAIK printer drivers are
> separate processes so there's no ABI problem whatsoever.

In theory, yes. I have tried just that, and it didn't work. I will try
again tomorrow, when I see this printer again.
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Hilsen Harald