Re: Driver compilation for amd64

From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:56:50 +0300
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 08:18:02PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote:
> Leubner, Achim wrote:
> >Is it possible to cross-compile a driver on an i386 platform for amd64,
> >and if possible, how should I do that? 
> >
> >Any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> It's not exactly an answer to your questions, but you could set up a 
> virtual machine with (for example) qemu, which supports emulating AMD64 
> machine on an i386. FreeBSD-AMD64 version could be installed on it, and 
> you could compile whatever you want.
Freebsd amd64 definitely does not work inside qemu, because acpi required
for that architecture, but is not provided by qemu-system-x86_64.

Received on Wed Jul 05 2006 - 16:57:00 UTC

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