Driver compilation for amd64

Kostik Belousov kostikbel at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 18:57:00 UTC 2006


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.
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