From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HzsYE-0006Y4-BS for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:04:10 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzsYB-0006XR-2y for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:04:07 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HzsY9-0006X5-JK for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:04:06 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HzsY9-0006Wz-FB for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:04:05 -0400 Received: from neonescio.viaisn.org ([82.94.249.43]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HzsY8-0005Ye-TN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:04:05 -0400 Received: from dijkstra.dekkers.cx ([2001:960:7a0:0:213:d4ff:fe9c:2487] ident=Debian-exim) by neonescio.viaisn.org with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32 CV=0) (Exim 4.63 #1) id 1HzsY6-00085s-G4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:04:02 +0200 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=dijkstra.dekkers.cx ident=jeroen) by dijkstra.dekkers.cx with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1HzsY3-000509-Qf for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:03:59 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:03:59 +0200 Message-ID: <87bqfekfkw.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <20070617093715.GA18112@coresystems.de> References: <20070616160553.C62C1BFD7@mail.lfs-matrix.net> <4675BFB0.4010902@cross-lfs.org> <87d4zvjuza.wl@dekkers.cx> <20070617092639.GA14818@aragorn> <20070617093715.GA18112@coresystems.de> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.14.0 (Africa) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.8 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Shij=F2?=) APEL/10.7 Emacs/22.0.95 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: 64 Bit Support? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:04:07 -0000 At Sun, 17 Jun 2007 11:37:15 +0200, Stefan Reinauer wrote: > > * Robert Millan [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