Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (This mail is copied to amd64 list)
>
> Hi. I'm now working on that package.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% apt-cache show extipl
Package: extipl
Version: 5.04-1.0.0.1.pure64
Priority: optional
Section: admin
Maintainer: Taketoshi Sano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Architecture: amd64
Filename: pool/unstable/main/amd64/e/extipl/extipl_5.04-1.0.0.1.pure64_amd64.deb
Size: 5998
MD5sum: 0eb2518d7d02e4b5911a3d2f93472b06
Description: Yet Another Boot Selector for IBM-PC compatibles.
Extended-IPL is a boot selector which is upper compatible with
original IBM IPL. This package includes the installer for this
boot code which is written into MBR of your hard disk.
.
With this boot selector, you can select a partition from
all the partitions including the logical partitions as well as
the primary ones in all the BIOS supported disks when booting a PC,
and then it will boot up the OS reside at the selected partition.
installed-size: 24
^^^^^^^^^^^
'residing on' or 'that resides on'
Is that from your patch or another one?
> Extipl uses syscall5 _llseek on i386 to reach the right sector
> in the hard disk where the boot code is installed in.
> So I'm afraid that it can't work on pure 64bit environment.
> But if any amd64 system can run all i386 32bit code,
> then it might run that _llseek system call too.
It should not use _llseek on i386 either. The right way is to define
64bit file operations (LFS) and use the normal lseek (which then uses
64bit off_t).
MfG
Goswin
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