[mythtv-users] My upgrade from Mythbuntu 10.10 to 12.04

[Will Dormann]

On 2/23/14, 9:44 AM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
>> Ah, I wonder if perhaps x32 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X32_ABI> is
>> perhaps the best architecture for MythTV?  More registers, but without
>> the application bloat.
> 
> No.  The "best" architecture to run is the one most people are running
> (amd64).  Regardless of any specific advantages one special architecture
> may provide, the most popular one is going to have the most developers
> maintaining it, and the most eyes on it to discover bugs.  The only
> counter to this is when you are using some custom application designed
> specifically for one architecture.

Yeah, I got it.   My comment was more along the lines of me thinking out
loud / speculating as to what may be a reasonable platform for the devs
to target, not that I had any intention of using that architecture.
There isn't even an x32 architecture option for Mythbuntu.  But as RAM
in platforms becomes more plentiful, it may not even make sense to spend
any effort on non x86_64 stuff.

With my system, modifying the vmalloc option in grub fixed the problem,
and I can't say that I'm experiencing any issues as the result of having
chosen a 32-bit architecture.



-WD