Re: Monterey apps under Linux

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com)
14 Oct 1999 00:22:20 GMT

Followup to: <38050D62.78F7E78@pobox.com>
By author: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> > Why so?
>
> It seems more difficult to code an iBCS-like module which will run
> 64-bit Monterey apps on a 32-bit Linux kernel, rather than vice versa.
>

Who is talking about a *32-bit* Linux kernel? Linux on IA64 (like all
64-bit platforms) is 64-bit.

> Though perhaps, as one person mentioned, the article is merely talking
> about a common 64-bit ABI which will run transparently across IA64 and
> other Monterey-compatible OS's.

That's another possibility.

-hpa

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