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Subject: Re: Driver compilation for amd64
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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.