RFC: A new MIPS64 ABI

[Joe Buck]

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 05:57:13PM -0800, Paul Koning wrote:
> It seems that this proposal would benefit programs that need more than 2 GB but less than 4 GB, and for some reason really don't want 64 bit pointers.
> 
> This seems like a microscopically small market segment.  I can't see any sense in such an effort.

I remember the RHEL hugemem patch being a big deal for lots of their
customers, so a process could address the full 4GB instead of only 3GB
on a 32-bit machine.  If I recall correctly, upstream didn't want it
(get a 64-bit machine!) but lots of paying customers clamored for it.

(I personally don't have an opinion on whether it's worth bothering with).