loading linux 32 bit printer drivers possible on amd64?

[David Southwell]

On Tuesday 22 November 2011 03:24:24 Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> why not with the freebsd32 emulation? This is one emulation layer less to
> care about. I do not know if this is feasible, I haven't looked if pips
> has some libs and where they shall be put, but as a first try you could
> extract the contents of the pips packages and put them into the 32bit
> locations.
> 
> Bye,
> Alexander.
Hi

OK  sounds sensibel but how do I get there?

I do not have a compat/freebsd32 directory. I do have 
/usr/src/compat/freebsd32.

Is freebsd32 a kernel install option or can it be added without rebuilding the 
kernel?

Thanks in advance

David