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Olivier Crete posted <1133890525.3733.10.camel@×××××××××××××.internal>, |
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excerpted below, on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 12:35:25 -0500: |
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> Last time I checked, the grub configure script just passed -m32 to gcc |
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> on amd64. That's why I made grub-static which is exactly which is, I |
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> believe, all you can use on a system that doesnt have a compiler that |
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> can spit out 32bit code. |
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Thanks. That's as I thought... unfortunately. |
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I wonder if they'll eventually develop a 64-bit boot method, or develop |
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the compiler to understand at least the minimal required instructions... |
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just as a 32-bit compiler now does. (If I'm not mistaken, the initial |
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boot sequence isn't even 32-bit, but 16-bit and possibly even 8 or 10 bit, |
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so the 32-bit compilers have had to be adopted to at least manage that, |
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without a special 16-bit glibc or compiler mode.) Such a development |
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would certainly be convenient for us from-source crowd, but I suppose it's |
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not a priority, given from-source is a definite minority, and will |
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certainly be so for a /few/ years yet. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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