Re: x86-64 port of debian/linux
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:49:22PM +0100, Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:28:42PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >
> > I believe Robert Millan was starting some work on x86-64 as part of his
> > work on bochs, but I don't know the details ...
>
> He said that using bochs that project could start even without having
> the hardware, as bochs now supports x86-64 arch. He also filled a bug
> to create debian-x86-64 list, but I think that some more work must to
> be done for the list to be created.
>
> AFAIK he hasn't done any more, anyway, I'm CCing him.
Hi,
I started building a toolchain but i hit a GCC build bug on x86-64,
then run out of free time and gave up.
Bart, it's great news you want to take on it. Some notes:
- Bochs packages in Sid have x86-64 enabled by default.
- There's an image of Linux for x86-64 in Bochs diskimages site
(IIRC you can boot it as a floppy image or load it with GRUB)
- see README.Debian
- see http://bochs.sourceforge.net/tmp/x86-64/, maybe something
useful there
- the emulation is not perfect. if you hit some bug be sure to
ask in the bochs list, someone may be addressing it already.
Please keep me informed.
--
Robert Millan
"Omnis enim res, quad dando non deficit, dum habetur et non datur,
nondum habetur, quomodo habenda est."
"For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is
not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared."
Aurelius Augustinus (354-430)
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