[mkroot] x86_64 x32 mkroot port status report

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Congrats. Great to have x32 available. I like this architecture.

Alain Toussaint:
> Hello,
> 
> Just reporting that I successfully built and booted up in both qemu and
> real hardware an x32[1] ABI port of mkroot along with musl-cross-make.
> 
> [1] == not to be confused with a 32 bit i686 userspace; the
> particularity are 4 bytes pointers like i686 but there is full access
> to the 15 integer registers and 16 floating points registers like
> x86_64.
> 
> On real hardware, it is necessary to pass the command
> init=/usr/bin/busybox sh (or /bin/busybox sh) to the bootloader but
> otherwise, there are no other requirements.
> 
> The dropbear package does not compile and finally, I was able to
> install gcc 6.3.0 from mcm in native x32 configuration and it run.
> 
> Alain
> 
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