From 43b5b9593c6b34dacab2eb757c736b34d8bc8ceb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Dubbs Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:16:13 +0000 Subject: Removed paragraph in LFS Target Architectures that said that we can't build a 64-bit loader git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9107 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 10 ++++++++++ general.ent | 4 ++-- prologue/architecture.xml | 6 ------ 3 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 1c5ca83d7..9a55cb17a 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -37,6 +37,16 @@ --> + + 2009-11-16 + + + [bdubbs] Removed paragraph in LFS Target Architectures + that said that we can't build a 64-bit loader. + + + + 2009-11-16 diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index 59325d058..d30cfd945 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - - + + diff --git a/prologue/architecture.xml b/prologue/architecture.xml index 0a9c07599..55b24559e 100644 --- a/prologue/architecture.xml +++ b/prologue/architecture.xml @@ -23,12 +23,6 @@ Ubuntu, Red Hat/Fedora, SuSE, or other distribution that targets the system that you have. Also note that a 32-bit system can be installed and used as a host system on a 64-bit AMD/Intel system. -If you decide to target a 64-bit AMD/Intel system, LFS does have some -limitations. First, it does not currently provide instructions for a 64-bit -boot loader. If there is an existing boot loader, it can be used to boot to -any LFS system you build, but cannot be -built on a 64-bit system. - Some other facts about a 64-bit systems need to be added here. When compared to a 32-bit system, the sizes of executable programs are slightly larger and the execution speeds are only slightly faster. For example, in a -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf