From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRWz7-0001o3-Vn for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:19:02 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRWz5-0001mc-MF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:19:00 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44083 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRWz5-0001mS-78 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:18:59 -0500 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:51776) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRV2Z-0003qU-55 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:14:27 -0500 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRTfj-0007mD-3B for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:46:47 -0500 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e6.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n0QFebXI021645 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:37 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.1) with ESMTP id n0QFeDKL191846 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:13 -0500 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n0QFeDub019927 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:13 -0500 Received: from squirrel.codemonkey.ws (sig-9-65-32-74.mts.ibm.com [9.65.32.74]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n0QFeCYg019896 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:40:13 -0500 Message-ID: <497DD950.2080908@us.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:40:00 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Enabled building of x86_64 code on Mac OS X References: <1232826287-18542-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1232826287-18542-1-git-send-email-agraf@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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