[RFA] Update OpenBSD/mips64 support
Maciej W. Rozycki
macro@linux-mips.org
Thu Apr 14 10:44:00 GMT 2005
On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Richard Henderson wrote:
> I wouldn't say that. Think of it as merely a 64-bit application that
> Just So Happens to only use the low 31 bits.
>
> The only thing the kernel needs to do is for mmap (0, ...) choose an
> address in the low 32 bits. For everything else, the application will
> provide a correct value or its broken and will suffer the consequences.
Well, that's the kernel part. There's userland as well -- and welcome to
the world of LFS: -EFBIG and unmappable files...
Maciej
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