Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: > Hello, > > I have restored some pieces which are not outdated (we still do have 32-on-64 > plans, and running 32bit on 64bit hardware is still something people > have to understand possible).
That is totally fine with me. May I ask why we might pursue supporting 32-on-64 plans? It would certainly push us to have portable RPC declarations. I personally only want to run a 32-bit or 64-bit OS and not a combination. Can you help me see the value in a 32 bit userland on top of a 64 bit kernel? Just curious. Joshua Sent from my T43 Debian GNU/Hurd (real hardware) > > Thanks, > Samuel > > jbra...@dismail.de, le mer. 17 mai 2023 09:53:01 -0400, a ecrit: >> --- >> faq/64-bit.mdwn | 15 ++++++++------- >> open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn | 6 +----- >> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/faq/64-bit.mdwn b/faq/64-bit.mdwn >> index 2e1278cb..9c8ecc9c 100644 >> --- a/faq/64-bit.mdwn >> +++ b/faq/64-bit.mdwn >> @@ -13,11 +13,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] >> >> [[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]] >> >> -There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland for the short term, but >> there >> -are plans for 64-bit kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably >> permit >> -to efficiently make use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland >> -addressing space. The kernel support was merged into GNU Mach, the currently >> -missing bit is the 32/64 mig translation for kernel RPCs. >> +A 64-bit GNU/Hurd is coming soon! Hurd developers ported GNUMach to >> +64-bit some time ago. Then they started making significant progress >> +on the x86_64 userland port in Feb 2023. As of May 2023, the 64-bit >> +port works well enough to start all the essential Hurd servers and run >> +/bin/sh. We are currently building 64-bit packages. We plan on >> +supporting both a 32-bit and 64-bit Debian GNU/Hurd. However, there >> +is no plan to fix the year 2038 concern on a 32-bit system. >> + >> >> -That being said, you can always run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, it >> -just works, processes are just limited to a couple GiB available memory. >> diff --git a/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn b/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn >> index 95761828..ca30ba64 100644 >> --- a/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn >> +++ b/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn >> @@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] >> >> [[!inline pages="title(Is there a 64-bit version?)" feeds="no" raw="yes"]] >> >> -**What is left for initial support (32-on-64) is** >> - >> - * Fixing bugs :) >> - >> -**For pure 64bit support, we need to** >> +**For 64-bit support, we need to** >> >> * Fix bugs :) >> * bootstrap a distrib >> -- >> 2.32.0 >> >> -- Joshua Branson Sent from the Hurd