Subject: Re: Porting to IBM Risc 6000
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 08/08/2002 14:00:47
>>>>> matthew green writes:
matthew> is that really logically any different that 32-bit on sparc64
matthew> hardware, where many supervisor parts are 64-bits? ie, it only
matthew> requires special assembler code, not a real 64 bit kernel?
I do not know what was done for 32-bit FreeBSD on Sparc64.
A 64-bit PowerPC kernel should only require a few 64-bit PowerPC
assembly routines to manipulate the registers.
David