From: geoff@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] x87
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 23:36:43 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84941d0ed0ece5e1e332f2c771f48e3a@plan9.bell-labs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a4cfc58b8f95d71dda549833c849d944@quanstro.net>
Jim is away for a few days, so I'll repeat the answer he gave me
recently (from memory):
The amd64 compiler suite works and we're able to build and run amd64
cpu servers, but there is no support for vga in the amd64 kernel yet.
Until we're ready to distribute the kernel, there doesn't seem to be
much point in distributing the compiler.
Note though that the amd64 port currently does not permit the use of
64-bit addressing in user processes nor I/O above 4GB, though that's
not really an issue, since it all goes through the kernel. I believe
Jim said that the amd64 kernel can exploit physical memory beyond 4GB.
Having said all that, I believe Vitanuova are doing the compiler work,
so they may have other opinions about availability.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-03 3:36 UTC|newest]
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2006-10-02 9:21 ` xspager
2006-10-02 11:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-10-02 19:21 ` erik quanstrom
2006-10-03 3:36 ` geoff [this message]
2006-10-03 8:06 ` erik quanstrom
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