From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>
To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: MIPS64 status?
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:13:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020113211323.A7115@momenco.com> (raw)
So, lots of people are asking me about 64-bit support for MIPS Linux. And
this is something I think I know, but I'm not sure. And before I go
spreading any more bad data, I thought I'd ask the experts. :)
As I understand it, 64-bit support is really two different things: 64-bit
data path (i.e. unsigned long long) and 64-bit addressing (for more than 4G
of RAM).
My understanding is that "MIPS64" generally refers to a kernel which
supports a 64-bit data path, but we're still limited to 32-bit addressing.
Is that correct?
I suspect that this is very much a toolchain issue, as I don't think gcc
will generate 64-bit addressing code.
Comments? Corrections? Smack-downs? :)
Matt
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Matthew Dharm Work: mdharm@momenco.com
Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer
next reply other threads:[~2002-01-14 6:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-14 5:13 Matthew Dharm [this message]
2002-01-14 8:13 ` MIPS64 status? Jason Gunthorpe
2002-01-14 20:00 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-14 20:00 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-14 20:42 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2002-01-14 23:07 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-15 0:08 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2002-01-15 20:59 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-15 20:00 ` John Heil
2002-01-15 20:55 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-16 18:55 ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-01-14 21:17 ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-01-14 21:17 ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-01-14 23:09 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-14 11:17 ` Dominic Sweetman
2002-01-14 12:54 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-01-14 12:54 ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-01-14 13:37 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-01-14 23:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-15 13:07 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-01-14 23:22 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-15 19:11 ` Thiemo Seufer
2002-01-14 23:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-14 23:25 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-14 23:25 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-14 23:45 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-01-14 23:59 ` Jason Gunthorpe
2002-01-15 0:27 ` Matthew Dharm
2002-01-15 0:27 ` Matthew Dharm
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