32bit TCL, 64bit packages?

[nixHobbyist]

In 32bit TCL repo, I have found many 64bit packages.  What is a purpose of 64bit packages namely "...tinycore64.tcz"?  Is it like in Puppy linux 64bit kernel (some drivers) and 32 Operating system???
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/

[linic]

I don't think they would work in x86. For example,
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/alsa-modules-6.12.11-tinycore64.tcz.info
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86_64/tcz/alsa-modules-6.12.11-tinycore64.tcz.info
Have the same info. Judging by the tinycore64, this is the LOCALVERSION http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86_64/release/src/kernel/config-6.12.11-tinycore64

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CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-tinycore64The way the LOCALVERSION works, is that it is used to replace the KERNEL placeholder in .dep files. For example http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/alsa.tcz.dep has

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alsa-modules-KERNEL.tcz
libasound.tcz
ncursesw.tcz
so if you would

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tce-load -wi alsa.tczon x86, it would load only the http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/tcz/alsa-modules-6.12.11-tinycore64.tcz.info because in the x86 kernel
http://tinycorelinux.net/16.x/x86/release/src/kernel/config-6.12.11-tinycore
config the LOCALVERSION is

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CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-tinycore"
You could download them still with

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tce-load -wi alsa-modules-6.12.11-tinycore64.tczthe .tcz will be "mounted" and the module files will be available for the kernel to load the modules, but it won't load them because they don't match the kernel.

[CNK]

Is it like in Puppy linux 64bit kernel (some drivers) and 32 Operating system???

Yes I believe you can have that if you use the vmlinuz64 and modules64.gz files from the x86 repo instead of the usual vmlinuz and modules.gz files. You'd have a 64bit kernel and 32bit user-space.

[Rich]

Hi nixHobbyist
Welcome to the forum.

It allows you to run 32 bit programs under a 64 bit kernel.
Instead of using core.gz for an initrd, you would create a core64.gz like this:

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cat rootfs.gz modules64.gz > core64.gzand then boot vmlinuz64 along with core64.gz.

This gives you a kernel that can manage a large amount of RAM and
allocate up to 4 Gig of RAM to each 32 bit program you are running.

You can not run 64 bit programs in this type of environment.