Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:39:00 -0400 | | From | Jeff Garzik <> | | Subject | Re: Pure 64 bootloaders |
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Andi Kleen wrote: > Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com> writes: > > >>I have been working on a project to create a Pure 64 bit distro of >>linux, nothing 32 bit in the system. I can accomplish that with no > > > Hopefully you're using /lib64 for that, otherwise your > packages will be incompatible to everybody else and not > FHS compliant. If you don't please don't submit any > patches to hardcode this to upstream packages.
/lib64 is an awful scheme. I'd avoid it.
Consider what happens in the existing scenario where you have capability to run both IA64 and x86-64 binaries on the same system.
> The problem is that there is currently no defined protocol > for passing data to the 64bit part of the kernel, so while > it would be possible to write a boot loader that starts > a 64bit kernel it would be very kernel version dependent.
Good point.
Jeff
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