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#1 2004-01-19 08:49:57

slawson
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From: Chester, UK
Registered: 2003-08-22
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x86_64 version of Arch??

How difficult would it be to build an AMD 64 Arch distribution?
Would it just be a case of rebuilding all the existing packages using different flags, or are there other things to consider?

Who else would be interested in an AMD 64 version?

Steve

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#2 2004-01-19 08:58:02

MNKyDeth
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Registered: 2003-09-13
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

I am on the amd64 bit bandwagon already and lovin every minute of it. x86-64 Arch would be way better than a i586 Arch, just my opinion of course. smile

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#3 2004-01-19 10:00:35

sarah31
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Registered: 2002-08-20
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

you'd either have to do it yourself or ask to join the deve crew then do it. i don't think any of the devs have 64 bit chips or if they do the time to switch arch over to 64 bit.

as for 64 bit over i586.....its a matter of opion but a moot one at that as the i586 is no longer being developed. likely never will be either.


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#4 2004-01-19 10:14:43

andy
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From: Germany
Registered: 2002-10-11
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

I have slowly started running AL on an Athlon64 - very slowly.

Currently it is running the standard AL, i.e. in 32bit mode. I have compiled a 64 bit kernel and it booted - sort of. Problem is devfs : devfs is marked broken on amd64, and I had to use a relatively old kernel to get devfs in. (there seem to be memory corruption issues on amd64 and devfs in 64bit mode). Alternatively, I tried to use a plain old static /dev - but then other things kept me from further working on this machine. I shall resume very soon ! :-)

Issues in general : You certainly need to cross compile a kernel first. Then you probably also need cross building gcc and glibc. Then you can start rebuilding using ABS ( hmmm, there ABS will shine ;-) ).
However, you will also need to set up 32bit compatibility libraries, so that binary-only programs will work, too.

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#5 2004-01-19 12:18:57

jlvsimoes
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

sarah is there i586 iso im planing to use a old machine and i dont realy want to compile the all base stuff for i586


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#6 2004-01-19 12:47:49

RdsArts
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Registered: 2003-10-17
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

andy wrote:

Alternatively, I tried to use a plain old static /dev - but then other things kept me from further working on this machine. I shall resume very soon ! :-)

Have you considered possibly moving to UDev?

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#7 2004-01-19 13:49:35

andy
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From: Germany
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

RdsArts wrote:

Have you considered possibly moving to UDev?

Yes, I have. But I first need to understand it ;-) ... also, I'm not sure how to enable it upon boot.

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#8 2004-01-19 14:09:03

nifan
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Registered: 2003-04-10
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

jlvsimoes: there is no iso, and i dont think there will be one since sarah stoped working on the i586 port. altough its still available with some floppys images to boot the install procedure.


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#9 2004-09-06 02:01:44

longhornxtreme
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Re: x86_64 version of Arch??

enabling Udev is as simple as

pacman -Sy udev

and then in Grub's menu.lst  append to your bootline                         devfs=nomount

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