Excellent news! On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:41:48 PDT ron minnich <rminn...@gmail.com> wrote: > - 2 MB PTEs. 4096 byte PTEs are not used in user programs at all.
> - 64 bit address space for processes, backed by 1 Gbyte PTEs for BSS > with addresses > 1 Gbyte. Use of Gbyte PTEs does not require anything > special; it just works. It's possible to have a process with (e.g.) 64 So you use both 2MB and 1GB PTEs? > - Tubes, a new IPC mechanism like pipes that uses the optimistic semaphores "Tubes" in memory of Sen Ted Stevens? > You'll need a 9vx setup to start. > Checkout the tree, and run 9vx with the tree as your root. You'll find a file > called BUILDING_AMD64 with further instructions in the root. No such file.
