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For this reason, a small number of applications, like lspci or the LVM ad-

ministration programs, have to exist even on non-64-bit platforms as 64-bit

programs to function correctly.

A 64-bit kernel can only load 64-bit kernel modules that have been spe-

cially compiled for this kernel. It is not possible to use 32-bit kernel mod-

ules.

Note

Some applications require separate, kernel-loadable modules. If

you intend to use such a 32-bit application in a 64-bit system en-

vironment, contact the provider of this application and SUSE 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.

Note

202 7.4. Kernel Speciﬁcations