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Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 16:18:59 -0700
From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Hardware for venti/fossil/cpu server
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Plan 9's kernel would need some work to ensure that it would
run using 64-bit addresses (64-bit integers are supported),
and 8[cal] would need to generate the 64-bit instruction
prefixes.  My impression is that it's less work than
a port to a brand-new 64-bit processor but not completely
trivial, as the kernel would need at least an inspection
for places where pointers are assumed to be 32 bits wide.