64 bit

[Saurabh Bathe]

ravi chandra wrote:

>how to cross compile a 64 bit kernel on 32 bit environment
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Hi,

This is not impossible but quite difficult to achieve.
I have never done this myself, but what I know is that you need to 
recompile the complete gcc-toolchain so that it recognizes and compiles 
64 bit. (this includes glibc and gcc and possibly kernel as well)
Please correct me if I am wrong though.

Infact the reverse is quite possible and simple. If possible I would 
prefer to have a 64 bit machine (AMD64 or Intel EM64T) which can do 32 
bit compile easily just by installing the proper devel libs.

Regards,
Saurabh