[Lguest] [patch] u32 pointer nightmare .....

Jes Sorensen jes at sgi.com
Fri Aug 31 17:05:54 EST 2007


Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-08-30 at 13:41 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> We also need to take into account running this from a 32 bit userspace.
>> So I'll take a better look at it.
>>
>> I have a box that I run all the apps in 32 with a 64 bit kernel.  But we 
>> are a ways from getting that to work.
> 
> Yes, that's my main concern.  But I think i386 vs x86-64 is going to be
> a compile time question (we can always compile two launchers).  If so, a
> simple "kernel_ptr_t" or something would work.

IMHO it would be fair to require a 64 bit launcher for a 64 bit kernel.
It is going to make the code butt ugly otherwise :(

Cheers,
Jes



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