ELFness and 64bit

Thomas Bogendoerfer tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Sun, 6 Feb 2000 03:03:11 +0100


On Sat, Feb 05, 2000 at 01:26:13PM -0500, willy@thepuffingroup.com wrote:
> We want to get people working on userland as soon as possible since this
> parallelises well with other people hacking on the kernel.  However, we
> need to go 64-bit inorder to support the L-class and similar machines.

sure, but there aren't enough people to split between even more machines.
I'd say let one person look into 64bit issues for now, and do the real
work, when 32bit is (more) solid.

Thomas.

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