Basic AMD64 question

dark_glaive · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 1:42 am Post subject: Basic AMD64 question

I'm considering getting an AMD64 system, and I was wondering if I can boot my current Gentoo system that has a kernel compiled for a normal Athlon 32-bit system without doing anything beyond just plugging the harddrives up and making sure all the drivers the kernel would need are in place.

LaserGuidedBunnyRabbit · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 3:58 am Post subject:

dark_glaive · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 4:57 am Post subject:

Looking at my applications, the only ones I would need to compile as 32-bit would be xine to deal with the closed source codecs and xmms to deal with some stupid 32-bit closed source plugins. Can just these applications be compiled as 32-bit without having to compile all the libraries they depend on as 32-bit as well, if you have multilib support in glibc? Thanks again guys!

infirit · Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2004 11:47 am Post subject:

Please read the Gentoo/AMD64 Installation Technotes. Short answer, you can compile specific apps 32bit while running an overall 64bit Gentoo.
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