Paul Rogers wrote:
Yes. But I recommend 7.8.
I know, but I never have liked being a Trail Blazer. ;-)
Trail blazing is using the d3evelopment version of the book.
Bleeding edge is using upstream development or version control versions of
the packages in the book.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue
/architecture.html
First paragraph.
I read that just yesterday, but sometimes people aren't exactly clear
and interpretations can be muddled if one doesn't know what's being said
already. I figured that could refer to CLFS or some arcane tweaks.
Then there's the "with some modifications", which casts a cloud over the
whole paragraph.
"with some modifications" revers to ARM or PowerPC. I think it is pretty
clear:
"On the other hand, the instructions in this book are also known to work,
with some modifications, with the Power PC and ARM CPUs."
How is that interpreted to mean modifications are needed on Intel/AMD?
I have not run into any of the problems mentioned in the last paragraph
and although that paragraph is still probably (marginally) valid, I
really doubt you will see any problems. We removed a lot of ancient
Xorg drivers some time ago.
But that paragraph too casts a cloud over the 64-bit issue. This whole
section reads "soft" to me. There is possible confusion because 64-bit
hardware runs a 32-bit Linux system without complaint. It doesn't have
strong positive statements, e.g. this book works for 32-bit hardware
with a 32-bit host Linux system, and also 64-bit hardware with a 64-bit
Linux system. Yeah, I'd like to see a statement like that in there!
How about: "The primary target architectures of LFS are the AMD/Intel x86
(32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) CPUs."
-- Bruce
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