From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 00:02:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] ILP32 support? Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 16:01:41 -0700, Don Dugger said: Don> Also, there would have to be some changes to the kernel. This Don> would create ELF64 processes that have to live within the first Don> 4G of memory. We already support 32-bit processes but some Don> kernel changes would be required to identify this new entity. Actually, the forthcoming kernel patch already has a per-process mmap-base. So the only change required in the kernel would be to recognize ILP32 binaries and set the mmap-base accordingly (so, yeah, I lied when I said no changes would be required... ;-). (This doesn't mean that I think ILP32 support is a good idea...) --david