Re: 2Marco Gerards (new)

2005-09-21 Thread Ruslan Nikolaev
2Marco Gerards   My mistake. Please read first line as "Because it requires to load 32-bit file..."Ruslan Nikolaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why can't you test for the regparam=3 bug?   Because it requires to build 32-bit file. As I said before this patch will work even the OS can't load 32-bit

Re: 2Yoshinori K. Okuji

2005-09-21 Thread Ruslan Nikolaev
> I have no idea which patch is better, so please decide it with Marco. I also can't say what is better. However my patch already works perfectly on my x86_64 machine with Linux w/o 32-bit binaries support. All compiled utilities are 64-bit. Chainloading, multiboot and linux loading working. The pa

Re: 2Marco Gerards

2005-09-21 Thread Ruslan Nikolaev
> Why can't you test for the regparam=3 bug?   Because it requires to build 32-bit file. As I said before this patch will work even the OS can't load 32-bit executables at all. I'm not sure about compiling it as a 64-bit file because it generates another code; moreover x86_64 accepts regparam=6. Pe

Re: I'm back (RISC OS port)

2005-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Timothy Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Timothy, > Firstly I apologise for my absence due to a personal reason, I'd rather not > into in this list, other than to say that my first full time job is only part > of the reason. It's nice that you are back and working on the RISC OS port aga

Re: Building on the AMD64

2005-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Guillem Jover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Guillem, > The grub_str* functions are taking 'char *' arguments, but in some > cases in the code they are given 'usigned char *' for example. 'char' > is not guaranteed to be signed or usigned on a given architecture, so > for strings it should not be

Re: [PATCH] new patch for amd64

2005-09-21 Thread Marco Gerards
Ruslan Nikolaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi Ruslan, > I have seen another patch for amd64 by Marco Gerards. In fact month > ago I sent the patch that also allows compiling on x86_64. Right, I sent in this new patch because I don't like changing LD and CC the way you do and because there were

Re: [PATCH] new patch for amd64

2005-09-21 Thread Yoshinori K. Okuji
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 01:10 am, Ruslan Nikolaev wrote: > I have seen another patch for amd64 by Marco Gerards. In fact month ago I > sent the patch that also allows compiling on x86_64. I have no idea which patch is better, so please decide it with Marco. However, your assignment is not

Re: Building on the AMD64

2005-09-21 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi, On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 04:17:04PM +0200, Marco Gerards wrote: > What I didn't do is testing the result on an AMD64 box, I will do that > later (it means rebooting my desktop, which I prefer not to do that > often...). There are some warnings on the AMD64 that do not show up > on the PC. I h