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Operating System Specific Discussions => AROS Research Operating System => Topic started by: dammy on February 06, 2006, 05:20:38 PM

Title: First Step Towards X86_64 Port
Post by: dammy on February 06, 2006, 05:20:38 PM

And a very interesting step indeed, read it here (http://aros-exec.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=129).

Dammy

Title: Re: First Step Towards X86_64 Port
Post by: Tomas on February 06, 2006, 08:59:19 PM

I can swear someone said it was already ported for 64bit..

Title: Re: First Step Towards X86_64 Port
Post by: bloodline on February 07, 2006, 07:30:11 AM

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Tomas wrote:
I can swear someone said it was already ported for 64bit..

Well, AROS has always worked on the Athlon64... but that's due to the fact that it can run in 32bit mode, rather than AROS running in 64bit mode :-D

Title: Re: First Step Towards X86_64 Port
Post by: dammy on February 07, 2006, 11:04:31 AM

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I can swear someone said it was already ported for 64bit..

Not yet.  Making AROS kernel modular is a huge perk, IMO.  This means that VESA driver can be loaded (or not) via GRUB which means AROS_64 can use a standard GRUB instead of the current custom GRUB.  This is not the only suprise Michal has instore for us.  :-D

Dammy
TeamAROS

Title: Re: First Step Towards X86_64 Port
Post by: bloodline on February 07, 2006, 11:26:44 AM

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dammy wrote:

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I can swear someone said it was already ported for 64bit..

Not yet.  Making AROS kernel modular is a huge perk, IMO.  This means that VESA driver can be loaded (or not) via GRUB which means AROS_64 can use a standard GRUB instead of the current custom GRUB.  This is not the only suprise Michal has instore for us.  :-D

Dammy
TeamAROS

His mails on the Dev-list have certainly got me excited!