Re: 64 Bit Support?

[Stefan Reinauer]

* Robert Millan <address@hidden> [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.

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