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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
To: Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MIPS 64?
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 17:48:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020515214818.GA1991@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NEBBLJGMNKKEEMNLHGAIOEPPCGAA.mdharm@momenco.com>

On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> So... I'm looking at porting Linux to a system with 1.5GiB of RAM.
> That kinda blows the 32-bit MIPS port option right out of the water...

Not unless you count bits differently than I do... 32-bit is 4 GiB.  Is
there any reason MIPS has special problems in this area?

> 
> What does it take to do a 64-bit port?  The first problem I see is the
> boot loader -- do I have to be in 64-bit mode when the kernel starts,
> or can I start in 32-bit mode and then transfer to 64-bit mode?
> 
> I looked in the arch/mips64/ directory, but I don't see much for
> specific boards there, but there are references to the Malta
> boards....
> 
> Matt
> 
> --
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> 

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15 21:34 MIPS 64? Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 21:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-05-15 21:55   ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:08     ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:08       ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:15       ` Kip Walker
2002-05-15 22:26         ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-15 22:29           ` Kip Walker
2002-05-19 19:29           ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:25       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-15 21:59   ` Jun Sun
2002-05-15 22:16     ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-19 19:32       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-16  3:28     ` Dan Malek
2002-05-16  7:15     ` Kevin D. Kissell
2002-05-16 17:13       ` Jun Sun
2002-05-19 19:44         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:41       ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:30     ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20 10:06       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-20 15:57         ` Greg Lindahl
2002-05-20 16:05           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2002-05-21 16:47           ` Florian Lohoff
2002-05-21 17:00             ` Greg Lindahl
2002-05-20 19:05         ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:24   ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-19 19:23 ` Ralf Baechle
2002-05-20  6:05   ` Matthew Dharm
2002-05-20 20:30     ` Ralf Baechle

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