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[Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>]

Heya Low,

As it's been a couple of weeks since this post of yours, *and* because I 
just upgraded to an athlon64, I was wondering what kind of progress has 
been made on this front.

Even if not much progress has been made, would you be able to share any 
insights as to what sort of stuff you've done to get parts of the system 
going in 64-bit mode?  I'm guessing that I've got to change the HOST 
spec in /var/lib/sorcery/archspecs/amd64/* to something like 
'x86_64-*-*' (replacing the *'s) to get gcc to compile with 64-bit 
functionality? 

Any info or specific RTFM links would be great...

Thanks,

-Adam

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 12:58:27PM +0200, wandre.l AT free.fr wrote:
> >
> Hello smglers !
> 
> Here is a little report about amd64 & SMGL.
> 
> Biggest problems are gcc and glibc. I've tried using install_root feature,
> i've had time to try almost all spells in basesystem. gcc and glibc fail.
> others are ok.
> Now, i'm working with benoit, using scripts used quite a while ago to create
> isos. same problems, gcc and glibc fail. We've found some options to add to
> configure for amd64. hopefully, we'll have something (almost) working next 
> week.
> The thing is:
> 1) we'll have a special iso for amd64 to get 64 bits mode from the 
> beginning.
> 2) if we can get amd64 support inside spells without having to maintain a
> special amd64 grimoire (i hope so, or that would really be a pain, something
> like what is already done for ppc afaik), that'd mean we could be able to 
> have
> a 32 bits system and convert it on the fly to 64.
> BUT, we would need to find a way to get the cpu switch from 32 bits mode to 
> 64,
> and i'm afraid that is not possible without a reboot. Moreover i let you
> imagine problems you'll encounter converting gcc and all to 64 bits elf,
> while cpu is running 32 bits mode...
> That's all i can say for now. So, to sum up a bit, next week we should have 
> a
> native a64 basesystem, and possibly an alpha testing iso. next, we'll have 
> to
> test others spells...
> best regards,
> low