On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > Maybe I wasn't clear about it, I meant kernels with 32 bit address > space but 64 bit register width, allowing for userland N32 ABI. > > E.g. the old DECstations with R4k CPU and limited memory would fit > in this scheme. :-) I'm only going to support n64 on the DECstation. You are welcomed to do n32 stuff yourself if you want to. > > Remember we are writing of the kernel -- we don't know what userland is > > going to bring us > > I don't understand this. The kernel _defines_ what the userland is allowed > to do. I haven't considered you may mean crippling the available user address space. -- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
