From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jim Gifford <maillist@jg555.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Pure 64 bootloaders
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:39:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43229BA4.4010306@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <p73k6hp2up7.fsf@verdi.suse.de>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-10 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-10 7:42 Pure 64 bootloaders Jim Gifford
2005-09-10 7:52 ` 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 [this message]
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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