On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 05:54:52PM +0000, Thiemo Seufer wrote: > > That's a decision Thiemo would have to make. Thiemo, why is our IP22 > > kernel 64 bit again? > > The idea is to provide 64-bit kernels where possible, so n32/n64 > can work alongside o32.
The errata Thomas ad-hoc found was for example that a double-word shift
garbles an integer multiplication. This would cause an n32/n64
userspace also to break in colorful ways if not compiled with these
workarounds. So running 64bit on these kind of machines might be
too much hassle ...
Flo
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