On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 02:23:46AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:17:04 +0200 > > > No, it's not because it makes it impossible to have 64bit processes > > that run with 32bit ABI (not implemented right now but we don't > > want to break that). > > I've been hearing this for years, and still there's nothing > that really wants to do this.
People regularly ask for 32bit in long mode on x86-64. So far nobody did really implement it, but I would assume it will happen sooner or later. > > The one case that emulates 32-bit programs from a 64-bit > process (ia64) makes 64-bit system calls. > > We can't sit on our hands forever on this issue because of > some pseudo-feature that's been in perpetual beta since the > first time it was ever mentioned :-) On what issue exactly? So far all the code was relatively easily fixable. -Andi
