Re: 64 Bit Support?

[Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@vrijschrift.org>]

At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:37:15 +0200,
Stefan Reinauer wrote:
> 
> * Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com> [070617 11:26]:
> > On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 02:16:41AM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote:
> > > At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 17:11:44 -0600,
> > > David Broadfoot wrote:
> > > > I am wondering if there is plans for Grub 2 to be able to be compiled 
> > > > and run in a 64 bit enviroment. I am a part of the Cross-LFS Dev. team, 
> > > > and Under the pure 64 bit system, we have to use a 32 static version of 
> > > > grub compiled on a 32 computer in order to get it to boot, or use 
> > > > *Cough* lilo.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks for your time
> 
> Interesting would also be to boot pure 64bit kernels. I think some of
> the BSDs have their bootloader switch to 64bit long mode, so the kernel
> does not have to dot this anymore. Maybe grub could do the same thing.

To enable long mode you have to enable paging and I don't think the
bootloader should be doing things like that. I also don't see any
problems with the OS enabling long mode.

Jeroen Dekkers