Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN)
Hi all, Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. Rgds, Marc L

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: > Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will > work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting > with EXTLINUX. I really don't have a good answer to your question, as I'm guessing yo

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote: > Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will > work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting > with EXTLINUX. LILO, Grub2. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: htt

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:06:59AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: > > Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to > > the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. > > I also have the changes required to b

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/12/08 09:28 CST: > I suppose, at some point, we might want to be able to do multilib. But, > at least when I started the branch, it was felt that we'd be better off > just approaching a 64-bit only build. Whenever we do feel like adding > multilib, build not

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > I agree totally that trying to introduce multilib into LFS would be > very difficult for us right now. I wasn't trying to say we should. In > fact, I probably shouldn't have commented to the thread at all. But I > wasn't sure if the

BLFS-6.3-rc1 has been released!

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
The BLFS Development team is pleased to announce the release of the 6.3-rc1 version of BLFS. This is a release candidate of the 6.3 version, due to be released on May 25th. For additional information about the release, along with download and format options, see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs

Re: SVN-JH-20080423 : Step 8.3. Linux-2.6.24.4

2008-05-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 05:13:18PM +, Dennis Clarke wrote: > Things were going well here with PowerPC based machine. > > BOOTAS arch/powerpc/boot/fixed-head.o > BOOTCC arch/powerpc/boot/ep88xc.o > BOOTCC arch/powerpc/boot/cuboot-hpc2.o > BOOTCC arch/powerpc/boot/empty.o > HOSTCC