romcc fixes for AMD64

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 16 09:58:00 CEST 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> Is there any need in going 64bit for the LinuxBIOS C payload on Opteron?
> Since the kernel does long mode switching itself this should not be the
> case, but maybe there are different opinions.

I think maybe when we start putting > 4 GB memory on these machines, I 
don't know how we're going to zero memory absent a true 64-bit C payload.

ron




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