From frodevf at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 12:55:28 2014
From: frodevf at gmail.com (Frode V. Fjeld)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 14:55:28 +0200
Subject: [Movitz-devel] Movitz support for x86_64?
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Right, it was a quite conscious design decision originally to make it
all quite x86-32-specific. They way to go forward would be to write a
new x86-64 assembler and compiler (I think I already wrote the assembler
mostly) and then move over the lisp pieces to that.

--
Frode V. Fjeld

Robert Burghart <jestersks at gmail.com> writes:

> It's been awhile since I looked at it but as I remember you'd have to modify the built in assembler
> so it generates x64 binary information at the very least. Then make any changes to the actual
> kernel to make it work as a 64 bit kernel. Also modify the GRUB boot descriptor so that it knows to
> setup a 64 bit environment for the kernel.
>
> On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:55 PM, Jon Boone <ipmonger at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi all,
>    
>     ? I recently downloaded the movitz source and was able to get it up and running on VirtualBox
>     using a floppy disk image.
>    
>     ? After reading the documentation, it appears that Movitz targets only x86 32-bit and I was
>     wondering what steps would be necessary to extend it to support x86_64. ?
>    
>     --?
>     Jon Boone
>     Sent with Sparrow
>




From rvedam at gmail.com  Tue Apr 29 15:07:31 2014
From: rvedam at gmail.com (Ram Vedam)
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 11:07:31 -0400
Subject: [Movitz-devel] Github repository for movitz
Message-ID: <CAJw6TB=J3KFydTGaBeaeZ0JNO9FWpGJ-tPiUR8PvYkH2ZJOfSw@mail.gmail.com>

Is the master branch for movitz still on CVS or has it been moved over to
github? I'm just wondering if it already has been moved over.

-- 
Ram Vedam

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