Subject: Re: LP64 build problem
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: Emmanuel Dreyfus <manu@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/09/2002 22:18:50
> > The NetBSD/mips sources are in no position to be built as LP64.
> Well, if I remove -Werror to get this problem corrected, I can build a
> LP64 kernel. This kernel is able to boot, but because system calls are
> completely broken, init dies quickly.
Well, let me rephrase: It's not LP64 at all, this is why I have this
warning. longs and pointer are still 32-bit longs, and this is normal
since we don't have toolchain support for building a LP64 kernel.
It's just a 32 bit kernel with 64 bit trapframes.
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Emmanuel Dreyfus
manu@netbsd.org