romcc fixes for AMD64

ron minnich rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue Sep 16 11:43:01 CEST 2003


On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> This could be done using the Opterons PAE feature. Currently I see a
> tradeoff between LinuxBIOS image size and the design conflict when going
> away from 16bit firmware on 32bit systems while staying with 32bit on
> a 64bit platform.

this won't last very long here. 36 bits only gets us to 64 GB -- too 
small. 

LinuxBIOS has run in 64-bit mode on a 64-bit platform -- the alpha. I see 
no real issue with going to 64-bit opteron mode. 

rno




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