From: Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>
To: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Pure 64 bootloaders
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 00:42:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43228E4E.4050103@jg555.com> (raw)
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
issues pretty much on all platforms, with the exception of the
bootloaders. It just seems odd, that all the bootloaders seem to have
gcc -m32 in their makefiles.
Silo on the Sparc has gcc -m32
Grub on the x86 platforms has gcc -m32
The only one that builds and works is Lilo, which most people are moving
away from.
So for my question, why does a bootloader have to be 32bit?
Anyone got 64 bit bootloaders for Sparc or x86_64 machines?
Are there technical limitations that bootloaders can't be 64 bit?
If we can't have a pure64 environment, why does the Kernel support it?
Thank you all for taking you time to respond.
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Jim Gifford
maillist@jg555.com
next reply other threads:[~2005-09-10 7:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-10 7:42 Jim Gifford [this message]
2005-09-10 7:52 ` Pure 64 bootloaders Jeff Garzik
2005-09-10 8:01 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-11 16:33 ` Jim Gifford
2005-09-11 18:48 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-11 18:49 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-10 8:28 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-10 8:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-10 16:34 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-09-10 18:15 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-12 21:32 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-12 21:41 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-12 22:02 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-12 22:12 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-12 23:09 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-13 16:52 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-09-13 17:00 ` Joe Bob Spamtest
2005-09-14 3:44 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-14 13:20 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-09-14 17:26 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-09-13 17:21 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-09-13 19:37 ` Lennart Sorensen
2005-09-14 9:39 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-09-10 18:30 ` Harald Dunkel
2005-09-12 14:50 ` Roger Heflin
2005-09-13 17:14 ` Bastian Blank
2005-09-15 6:16 ` Harald Dunkel
2005-09-11 11:53 ` Stephen Frost
2005-09-11 14:14 ` Stefan Smietanowski
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