Olivier Crete posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:35:25 -0500:
> Last time I checked, the grub configure script just passed -m32 to gcc > on amd64. That's why I made grub-static which is exactly which is, I > believe, all you can use on a system that doesnt have a compiler that > can spit out 32bit code. Thanks. That's as I thought... unfortunately. I wonder if they'll eventually develop a 64-bit boot method, or develop the compiler to understand at least the minimal required instructions... just as a 32-bit compiler now does. (If I'm not mistaken, the initial boot sequence isn't even 32-bit, but 16-bit and possibly even 8 or 10 bit, so the 32-bit compilers have had to be adopted to at least manage that, without a special 16-bit glibc or compiler mode.) Such a development would certainly be convenient for us from-source crowd, but I suppose it's not a priority, given from-source is a definite minority, and will certainly be so for a /few/ years yet. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
