From: Matthew Dharm <mdharm@momenco.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
Cc: Linux-MIPS <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: MIPS 64?
Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 23:05:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020519230552.A17175@momenco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020519122336.A20670@dea.linux-mips.net>; from ralf@oss.sgi.com on Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:23:37PM -0700
On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:23:37PM -0700, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> > 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?
>
> Same loader as before - the build procedure will result in a 32-bit kernel
> binary which is loaded to the same old KSEG0 addresses.
Call me a bit slow, but...
Are you saying that my 32-bit loader (which is designed to load a 32-bit
ELF file) will do exactly that... but this 32-bit ELF file has the magic in
it to switch to 64-bit internally?
Nice... Very nice. I'm used to slick Open Source solutions, but I have to
admit that this is a pretty elegant one that solves a great many
problems...
Matt
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Matthew Dharm Work: mdharm@momenco.com
Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-05-20 6:05 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
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 [this message]
2002-05-20 20:30 ` Ralf Baechle
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