Re: RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-06 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 02:29:12PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: It won't use the extra registers in 32bit mode. Yeah, I know there's no CPU mode that does that. I wish, though... It would be theoretically possible to build for 64bit (with

Re: RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-05 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Peter Cordes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: First, what I'm suggesting: two new packages for sarge and one modified package. They would allow 64-bit applications using a small set of standard libraries to run on an otherwise i386

RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-04 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
I've been discussing this with various people all week, and since I now have a working prototype, I would to propose it and see what feedback there is. First, what I'm suggesting: two new packages for sarge and one modified package. They would allow 64-bit applications using a small set of

Re: RFC: Adding minimal amd64/biarch support for sarge

2004-08-04 Thread Peter Cordes
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 05:42:30PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: First, what I'm suggesting: two new packages for sarge and one modified package. They would allow 64-bit applications using a small set of standard libraries to run on an otherwise i386 installation, and allow 64-bit