From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1HziS1-0004UQ-1p for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:17:05 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HziRz-0004UK-Tl for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:17:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HziRy-0004U6-K5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:17:03 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HziRy-0004U2-DN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:17:02 -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 1HziRy-0007Qj-21 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:17:02 -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 1HziRf-0005IV-LS for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:16:43 +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 1HziRe-0004Ks-A9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:16:42 +0200 Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2007 02:16:41 +0200 Message-ID: <87d4zvjuza.wl@dekkers.cx> From: Jeroen Dekkers To: The development of GRUB 2 In-Reply-To: <4675BFB0.4010902@cross-lfs.org> References: <20070616160553.C62C1BFD7@mail.lfs-matrix.net> <4675BFB0.4010902@cross-lfs.org> 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 00:17:04 -0000 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 It already works. You need to have a compiler that can generate 32-bit code however, because the boot part of GRUB needs to be in 32-bit. We currently also have a build dependency on 32-bit libc and liblzo. I'm using a pure 64-bit Debian system with 32-bit libc and liblzo packages installed and that works fine. Jeroen Dekkers