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From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Enabled building of x86_64 code on Mac OS X
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:00 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <497DD950.2080908@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1232826287-18542-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de>

Alexander Graf wrote:
> Mac OS X 10.5 supports 64-bit userspace on an x86_64 kernel and
> by default uses 32-bit userspace applications, so the detection for
> the host architecture fails.
>
> This patch enabled building of x86_64 code on x86_64 capable CPUS
> with Mac OS X.
>   
Applied.  Thanks.

Out of curiousity, what are the benefits of using 64-bit apps in OS X?  
I guess greater memory addressability is important for QEMU.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 19:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-24 19:44 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Enabled building of x86_64 code on Mac OS X Alexander Graf
2009-01-26 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-01-27  0:34   ` Paul Brook
2009-01-27  0:42     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-27  0:59       ` Paul Brook
2009-01-27  1:22         ` Anthony Liguori
2009-01-27  9:21           ` Alexander Graf
2009-01-27 14:37             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-27 15:00             ` Laurent Desnogues
     [not found]   ` <BCD74E09-BC4C-4FC6-B814-D0276B763A9C@hotmail.com>
2009-01-27  0:40     ` C.W. Betts

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