64-bit Linux status

[Alexander Leidinger]

On Sun, 13 May 2012 10:58:16 +0300 (EEST) Vladimir Kushnir
<vkushnir at bigmir.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2012, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 01 May 2012 19:35:33 -0500 Jason Bacon <jwbacon at tds.net>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Just wondering if there is anything available in this area yet
> >> (even alpha quality).
> >
> > AFAIK: there is no patch available to test and nobody is working at
> > one.
> >
> 
> An alpha, a pre-alpha, an [anything]-alpha - absolutely anything one
> could start with? Sometimes it's not an option, it's an absolute must
> (like memory restrictions in Mathematica and so forth) :-(

There was some work years ago (~2008) which started with the 64-bit
linux emulation. This is stalled / not picked up by someone since years.

http://p4web.freebsd.org/@md=d&cd=//depot/user/dchagin/linux64/amd64/linux/&c=xoL@//depot/user/dchagin/?ac=83

As you can guess, there where some changes to the linuxulator code
since then and the above branch is not up-to-date.

Bye,
Alexander.

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