From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:41:48 PDT." References: Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:22:18 -0700 From: Bakul Shah Message-Id: <20110914192218.29250B827@mail.bitblocks.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] NIX 64-bit kernel is available Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1dc5b352-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Excellent news! On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:41:48 PDT ron minnich 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.