A few notes on Linux builds.

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@@ -192,6 +192,21 @@ many other POSIX-compliant host operating environments. To compile the custom
 gcc tool chain, you need the following tools on your host computer: bash, gcc, \r
 gmake, curl (or wget).\r
 \r
+Only the MdePkg and EdkModulePkg are currently supported by gcc builds. Other\r
+builds, such as the EdkNt32Pkg, will not compile with gcc.\r
+\r
+----------------------------\r
+A Word on compiling on Linux\r
+----------------------------\r
+\r
+In order to compile on Linux, you will need to have the e2fsprogs-dev package\r
+installed.  Check your distribution for the rpm, deb or other package format.\r
+This package contains the uuid library and header that are used by some of the\r
+host tools.\r
+\r
+If you are running on x86_64 Linux, then you should install a 64 bit version of\r
+the Java JDK. The version that was used was jdk-1_5_0_07-linux-amd64-rpm.bin.\r
+It may be downloaded from sun.com.\r
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 Notes on Documentation\r