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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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