On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:36:32PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote: > 1. Does porting require messing with the source code of gcc/binutils/gdb?
Not much, if at all. > 2. Do I need to have an AMD64 machine with more than 4 GB RAM to be able > to fully test my work? No. > 3. Would I be required to get 32-bit binaries working on 64-bit kernels or > would being able to run 64-bit binaries suffice? The latter. > 4. Is SMP part of the equation? SMP is almost a non-issue. The only code that is not shared with i386 in this area is the assembly bootstrap for the second CPU, the rest is identical. Joerg
