On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:35:50PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > You are right that i386 programs won't work right now. There isn't anything > fundamental about that, but I have to focus my efforts somewhere and that just > hasn't been where yet. There are a few things that need to be set up > differently for 32 bit programs in how certain system resources are > initialized, but the main problem would be that 32 bit support is likely > incomplete and virtually untested. This will definitely work eventually, but > my > attention is on getting the Linux kernel up in full system. If you'd like to > try > to get it to work yourself, I'd be happy to answer any questions you have.
Hi, Thanks for your reply; I understand the situation now. For the time being I will look into ways to use one of the other ISAs for my work. If this proves impossible I may well be contributing patches for i386 support. For the record, the main page of the wiki could be clearer on this point. Thanks, -- Jack Whitham [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
