Re: RFC: Add 32bit x86-64 support to binutils

["H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 4:42 PM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> On 12/30/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Millan wrote:
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I had this unsubmitted patch in my local filesystem. ?It makes Linux
>> detect ELF32 AMD64 binaries and sets a flag to restrict them to
>> 32-bit address space.
>>
>> It's not rocket science but can save you some work in case you
>> haven't implemented this already.
>>
>
> I have pushed my old kernel patches to a git tree at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org//pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-ilp32.git
>
> They are currently based on 2.6.31 since that was the released version
> when I first did this work; they are not intended to be mergeble but
> rather as a prototype.
>
> Note that we have no intention of supporting this ABI for the kernel
> itself. ?The kernel will be a normal x86-64 kernel.
>

Here is the updated ILP32 patch for 2.6.35.


-- 
H.J.

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