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Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I lurk on the LKML, say hi once in awhile, ask a question once in |
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> awhile, and try to read at least the interesting to a non-programmer |
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> posts. I was curious about this one that came up today. Seems like |
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> this is a natural for Gentoo. |
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> I have a Gentoo 64-bit setup but have had lots of troubles over the |
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> years (far less now though) with web media and other things that need |
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> to be more Windows compatible. (I do audio work with my Gentoo boxes - |
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> interface to studios and a few bands, etc) I've found that my 32-bit |
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> Gentoo installations have been more compatible than 64-bit. Outside |
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> stuff like Java is better. In general when I have a problem I wonder |
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> if it's because I'm running 64-bit. |
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> How would one go about building a 64-bit kernel on a 32-bit machine |
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> with Gentoo? I presume that's mostly just how I configure the kernel, |
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> along with maybe some cross-compile options? Are there any projects |
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> going on in this area where I might become a test case? Wiki? Docs? |
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> Do others see value - getting 64-bit memory management, new CPU |
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> flags, etc., but keeping the apps 32-bit for compatibility? |
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> Take care, |
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> Mark |
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Personally, I am using a 64-bit kernel with a 32-bit userland. My setup |
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is a bit more complicated than the usual, because I have a |
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x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc that will build 32-bit as well as 64-bit |
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binaries. The simpler version of what I use is: |
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# emerge crossdev |
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# crossdev -t x86_64-pc-linux-gnu |
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Then, you can use something like the following to actually build a |
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64-bit kernel (personally, I always use out-of-tree builds, and create a |
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GNUmakefile that calls the Makefile in the current directory with all |
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the options I want): |
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(in the kernel build directory) |
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# make -C /path/to/sources O=`pwd` ARCH=x86 \ |
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CROSS_COMPILE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu- \ |
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menuconfig |
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I have found that just about everything works perfectly in my 64-bit |
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kernel with 32-bit userland, *except* VirtualBox, which I have to run |
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the 64-bit version of from a chroot. I also personally handle all |
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external kernel modules, and add them to package.provided when |
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necessary, so portage doesn't have to think about them. |
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PS: |
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I was going to outline all the patches, etc. that I needed for a |
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multilib gcc/glibc, but then realized that you probably didn't need that |
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much detail. |
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