vasim Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 Hello everybody Can anyone help me about compiling the kernel to 64 bit mode if this is possible? I ask for the complete steps to recompile the Mandrake 10.0 Official kernel to 64 -bit mode for the athlon 64 3200+ I ask 1. if this is possible 2. the steps to do it... Somebody told me that is possible but he don't know how... Thanks in advance... [moved from Software by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 If you have the rest of the distro set up correctly I would assume it just does it - like it does for alpha. Wouldn't it just be easier to use the AMD64 version of Mandrake rather than recompile large chunks of code? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vasim Posted June 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 I think is better to do it myself , so get the experience ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted June 24, 2004 Report Share Posted June 24, 2004 The problem is the 32/64 compatibility.... If you wantto run a 64 bit kernel and the rest in 32 bit though... Id get a DOCUMENTED kernel source.... mandrake tend to patch them and forget to tell you...! As far as i know Suse have the best amd64 kernel.... its being copied by debian which the developers wouldnt do lightly :D I just made a 64 bit deb kernel myself but I used debian sources...these are already patched etc. and documented. basically you compile it anyway so it doesnt matter they are deb ones, its more important you know what patches etc. are applied. OK, so choose your sources - you can take a vanilla 2.6.6 and patch it yourself too. This is the BEST learning experience! (www.kernel.org) once you have this the 2.6 kernel is ridiculously easy ... However theres a gotcha for amd64 ... that is gcc 3.4 has more optimistations ... once you get a good kernel source ... its just make && make modules_install && make install be aware this will JUST give you a 64 bit kernel, all libraries etc will still be 32 bit. if you wanna go beyond this it gets more technical very quickly. Id suggest reading the threads at gentoo.org regarding AMD64 ... or also the debian64 ports. these explain about the biarch (64/32) etc. keep a seperate install .... id say just a normal MDK 10... so you always have something you can boot! keep a different / not just a new kernel cos you will replace libraries etc. with 64 bit ones. in other words make a complete spare copy of the tree... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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