git: amd64: Add kernel support for 64-bit virtual page tables. WARNING: This change removes support for 32-bit vpagetables.
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri Mar 26 09:26:21 PDT 2010
:> amd64: Add kernel support for 64-bit virtual page tables.
:> WARNING: This change removes support for 32-bit vpagetables.
:
:What is the implication of this warning?
:
:My guess is just that world+vkernel+kernel need to be rebuilt &
:resynched - but I'm not 100%
:
:cheers
:
:- Chris
I undid that one. Jordan originally changed the vpagetable feature
to use 64 bit page table entries on both x86_64 and i386. This broke
i386 in more ways than one (the lack of atomic ops on 64 bit pte's,
for example), so I changed it to use 'long' which is 32 bits on i386
and 64 bits on amd64. That means the i386 code remains compatible
with older vkernels.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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