From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Thu, 05 Sep 2002 18:39:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from crack.them.org ([65.125.64.184]:57362 "EHLO crack.them.org") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 5 Sep 2002 18:39:27 +0200 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.61.169] ident=mail) by crack.them.org with asmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17n0bC-0003Eo-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:39:22 -0500 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17mzez-0001ay-00; Thu, 05 Sep 2002 12:39:13 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 12:39:13 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Hartvig Ekner , "Kevin D. Kissell" , Tor Arntsen , Carsten Langgaard , Ralf Baechle , linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: 64-bit and N32 kernel interfaces Message-ID: <20020905163913.GA6086@nevyn.them.org> References: <20020905161933.GA5023@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 124 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: dan@debian.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips On Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 06:33:53PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: > On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > > Right. You don't recompile and get a magic bullet speed improvement > > (well, you do, but not a drastic one I think); but you don't recompile > > and get a magic bullet binary incompatibility either. Then you add > > 64-bit pieces by hand as necessary. > > Huh? I can somewhat understand the "rebuild and forget" approach, > especially in cases suitably experienced stuff was lost meanwhile. But if > you start to fiddle with some old crap, you may equally well run > 's/long/int/' within it, what's a deal. Eh? That's not even sort-of practical on an application of significant size. It would be a nightmare. -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer