Re: 64 bit operations w/32 bit kernel

["Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl>]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Ralf Baechle wrote:

> > What would be the downside to enabling 64 bit operations in user space
> > on a 32 bit kernel (setting the PX bit in the status register?). The
> > particular issue is that I want to access 64 bit-memory mapped registers,
> > and I really need to do it as an atomic operation. I tried borrowing
> > sibyte/64bit.h from the kernel, but I get an illegal instruction on the
> > double ops.
> 
> Common design bug in hardware, imho ...

 Well, ioremap() can be used to get at these areas (as well as any
others), whether we call it a bug or not.

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