From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4JJUSnC009663 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:30:28 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4JJUSBQ009662 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:30:28 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4JJUQnC009649 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:30:26 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g4JJUxd03165; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:30:59 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:30:59 -0700 From: Ralf Baechle To: Jun Sun Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , Matthew Dharm , Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: MIPS 64? Message-ID: <20020519123059.E20670@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020515214818.GA1991@nevyn.them.org> <3CE2DA46.3070402@mvista.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <3CE2DA46.3070402@mvista.com>; from jsun@mvista.com on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:59:34PM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:59:34PM -0700, Jun Sun wrote: > Back to 64bit port, it seems to me much of the 32bit work we have done in the > past a year or so needs to be moved over. Or better yet, if we can clean up > integer/long issues, we might be able to use 32bit kernel code straight for > 64bit kernel. Int vs. long was a very small issue as I discovered during porting for the first 64-bit machines, the IP22 and IP27. Ralf