[parisc-linux] Re: [parisc-linux-cvs] linux-2.5 jejb

[Carlos O'Donell]

> > This item is on my personal todo list, but I haven't talked to anyone who has 
> > suggested a solution. I'm just a lowly GNU/Libc hacker, but if you suggest 
> > something I _will_ write it. 
> 
> In general, we should probably be relying more on the generic 32/64
> compatibility layer recently introduced.  I suspect the best role model
> for all of this is sparc64, since that's habitually run as a 64 bit
> kernel with (mostly) 32 bit user space.

The sparc64 code is quite frightening, but I will look to it for a role
model.
 
> The HACK thing should continue to work OK as long as PA-RISC has no 64
> bit user binary support, though.

Yeah, it's OK until I attempt to write make/get/set/swap/context support
in libc :)

c.