Re: Wiki Edits: a smattering of small changes

[Joshua Branson]

Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> writes:

> On 17/12/18 10:56 am, Joshua Branson wrote:
>> Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> writes:
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> Thats the page I am looking at. I see two lists for different flavours
> of 64-bit. But no indication whether things like MID ABI definition are
> blocking binutils which blocks GCC and such.
>
> Making that explicit would help anyone (like myself) with less time to
> know whether they are able to dedicate some time yet, or waiting on
> something others need to do first.

Ahh, I think I know what you mean now.

What is left for initial support (32-on-64) is

    adding 64bit boot support from grub
    implement 32/64 RPC compatibility for RPCs served by kernel.

This section is talking about a 64-bit GNU Mach kernel, and the Hurd
would be 32-bit.  Basically it is easier to get a 64-bit GNU Mach and a
32-bit Hurd than it is for a 64-bit GNUMach and 64-bit GNU/Hurd.  I
suppose I can make that a bit more explicit.


    For pure 64bit support, we need to

This section is a 64-bit GNU Mach and 64-bit GNU/Hurd.  It's just harder
to do this.  Don't ask me why.  I'm a GNU/Hurd contributer, not a
developer...yet.

>
> AYJ
>

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