From 56ca3a5fa6d90620109743267d8aeb91ac7851f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Dubbs Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:04:25 +0000 Subject: Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the Linux host must be a 32-bit system and that the book only supports a 32-bit build. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@8683 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 5 +++++ prologue/hostreqs.xml | 11 +++++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index 4da819040..16c9049d7 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -40,6 +40,11 @@ 2008-10-19 + + [bdubbs] - Added a note to the Host System Requirements that the + Linux host must be a 32-bit system and that the book only supports + a 32-bit build. + [randy] - Updated the book to use 4.13a as the Texinfo version, even though the tarball is exactly the same as the previous 4.13 diff --git a/prologue/hostreqs.xml b/prologue/hostreqs.xml index 281956c41..d90dd420f 100644 --- a/prologue/hostreqs.xml +++ b/prologue/hostreqs.xml @@ -99,6 +99,17 @@ then you can compile a 2.6 kernel yourself. Instructions for compiling the kernel and configuring the boot loader (assuming the host uses GRUB) are located in . + + + This version of the book builds a 32-bit Linux system and + requires an existing 32-bit version of of the kernel on the Intel/AMD + x86 architecture. Adding capabilty for x86_64 systems is a major + objective of a future version of LFS. Support for 64-bit systems and + additional architectures can be found in the Cross-Compiled Linux From + Scratch (CLFS) project at . + + + -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf