On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Matthew Dharm wrote:
> As I understand it, 64-bit support is really two different things: 64-bit
> data path (i.e. unsigned long long) and 64-bit addressing (for more than 4G
> of RAM).
I suppose you could say that. I think I saw someone post to this list
that they were working on a patch to enable 64 bit registers with a 32 bit
kernel.
> My understanding is that "MIPS64" generally refers to a kernel which
> supports a 64-bit data path, but we're still limited to 32-bit addressing.
> Is that correct?
The mips64 tree in CVS is one that is a 64 bit addressing capable kernel.
AFAIK the linx convention is that <foo>64 refers to addressing (which
probably impiles register width too :>)
I'm not sure what the current state of the ELF64 MIPS toolchain is.
Jason
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