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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-08-19 14:28:22 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2021-08-19 14:28:22 +0200 |
| commit | 3bbd788b426a7c4307b741a123a406163ab68f9c (patch) | |
| tree | be798caec67d1c4b2eaaf21407f470d369988f3b /faq | |
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Update on the 64bit support
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diff --git a/faq/64-bit.mdwn b/faq/64-bit.mdwn index 1da375ba..2e1278cb 100644 --- a/faq/64-bit.mdwn +++ b/faq/64-bit.mdwn @@ -13,11 +13,11 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]] -There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland, but there are plans for 64-bit -kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make -use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland addressing space. -[[Work on this|open_issues/64-bit_port]] is currently in the master-x86_64 and -port-amd64 branches for GNU Mach. +There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland for the short term, but there +are plans for 64-bit kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit +to efficiently make use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland +addressing space. The kernel support was merged into GNU Mach, the currently +missing bit is the 32/64 mig translation for kernel RPCs. That being said, you can always run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, it just works, processes are just limited to a couple GiB available memory. |