Hrm... okay... first question, where do I get the 64-bit toolchain? Right
now, I'm using HJ's toolchain RPMs (from over a year ago -- I should update
those).
Second, what about all those nifty extras? Things like the fact that
kseg0/1 (well, their 64-bit equivalents) are now larger (how big are they,
anyway) so they can map all of my SDRAM as well as most (all?) of my
I/O space... I guess for that I need to reprogram all my address decoders,
and then that sort of thing must be what the arch/mips64/* stuff is for.
Yes? No? Or am I smoking something too strong again?
The 64/32 mixed-mode linux is certainly of some interest to our customers,
but full 64-bit is really where the demand is. Is there anything that a
non-compiler guy can do to help the effort along?
Matt
On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 10:46:15PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 12:38:50PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote:
>
> > Oh, I agree that a 64-bit kernel makes sense. I'm just not sure what is
> > needed to get from where I am now to where I want to be.
> >
> > There is _much_ interest from our customers for 64-bit linux. Especially
> > if the toolchain catches up so that we can have 64-bit userspace.
>
> The toolchain stuff is being worked on. Hold your breath but cheat every
> once in a while when your face turns blue ;-)
>
> > Anyone have some quick pointers on how to get from here to there?
>
> The basic receipe is easy. The 64-bit kernel has a binary compatibility
> layer that allows you to use 32-bit software with no changes. Just use
> a 64-bit compiler, for now that's probably still the egcs 1.1.2 /
> binutils 2.9.5 based mips64-linux / mips64el-linux tool chain. Using your
> old .config file do a "make ARCH=mips64 oldconfig" etc. The resulting
> binary file will be a 32-bit ELF file so you can just feed that to your
> firmware for booting as usual. Problems may be hit along the way ;-)
>
> Ralf
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Senior Software Designer, Momentum Computer
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