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From: Fabrice Bellard <fabrice@bellard.org>
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Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>>> Nick Snellock wrote:
>>>
>>>> Is anyone working on an x86-64 port?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not me :-) An x86-64 host port would be very interesting because the 
>>> 64 bit host MMU could be used to remap the whole emulated 4GB address 
>>> space.
>>
>>
>>
>> Fabrice, remember that I posted AMD64 support bits to the list some 
>> time ago? ;-) This works for user mode applications. As for the soft 
>> mmu, the current code is not 64-bit clean. I had some patches but they 
>> were not enough and are in a dormant state since. So remapping the 
>> whole 4GB address space is probably a faster and simpler fix indeed.
> 
> 
> Sorry - I should have merged it before ! If you can generate a new patch 
> against the current CVS I'll merge it (if you don't have time I can 
> begin to look at it - I am looking now at the version you posted). If 
> the user mode is working, most of the work is done.

It seems easy to merge... so I am merging it now.

Fabrice.