Re: [PATCH] /proc/sys/kernel/pointer_size

[William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 04:03:52PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>> A funny way to initialize this could be by reading System.map
>> and seeing how many significant hexidecimal digits are used
>> to list the kernel symbol addresses :-)

On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:00:25PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Don't try it, the perversity of MIPS will break you :)
> Just to clarify something that I saw getting lost in this discussion:
> Oprofile doesn't need to become built as a 64-bit binary, just
> configured to accept 64-bit kernels.  So this doesn't rule out using a
> 32-bit oprofile (i.e. not needing a 64-bit libc) on a 64-bit kernel. 
> It just means that we need to specify it somehow.
> John, speaking of MIPS perversity: MIPS64 kernels can come in ELF32
> files.  So you may just want to make this a configure-time option.

pkirchner has informed me /proc/kcore returns the correct information
in this case on MIPS, and I've also received x86-32/64 confirmation.

64-bit in 32-bit ELF: <pkirchner:#mipslinux>  it does say  abi=674 mips1 not 32bitmode not fp32
DecStation 5000/200: /proc/kcore:     file format elf32-tradlittlemips


Bill