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Re: 64-bit detection

From "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm>
Newsgroups alt.os.development
Subject Re: 64-bit detection
Date 2015-07-10 05:17 -0400
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2015 03:30:05 -0400, James Harris  
<james.harris.1@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> wrote in message  
> news:op.x1jgivqzyfako5@localhost...
>> On Thu, 09 Jul 2015 19:47:49 -0400, Benjamin David Lunt  
>> <zfysz@fysnet.net>  wrote:

>>> Have you done anything for 64-bit?
>>> Will you?
>>
>> I'd say probably not any time soon.
>
> You would have to add paging if you did - something you
> are or were reluctant to do. x86-64 won't run without it.
>

Sigh, yes, I've not done that.  I don't think it would detract
 from my OS project, but it seems to just be extra work.  It
might allow it to work better with one C compiler, but I was
planning on dropping support for it.

Although, I understand that I can identity map or physical
map memory, perhaps or hopefully all of it.  I'm not sure
how 64-bit memory addressing might affect that.  IIRC, 64-bit
did something special with offsets, like sign-extension from
32-bits to 64-bit (?).  Wouldn't that affect the address range?


Rod Pemberton

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64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-09 16:47 -0700
  Re: 64-bit detection "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-09 23:41 -0400
    Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 08:30 +0100
      Re: 64-bit detection "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-10 05:17 -0400
        Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 13:41 +0100
          Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-12 19:04 +0100
            Re: 64-bit detection "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-13 02:30 -0400
              Re: 64-bit detection "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 02:07 -0700
                Re: 64-bit detection "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-13 23:10 -0400
                Re: 64-bit detection "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 01:23 -0700
              Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-13 12:34 +0100
                Re: 64-bit detection "Rod Pemberton" <boo@fasdfrewar.cdm> - 2015-07-13 22:50 -0400
                Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 08:37 +0100
                Re: 64-bit detection "Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfrunews@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 01:41 -0700
                Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-14 10:04 +0100
      Re: 64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-10 08:44 -0700
      Re: 64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-10 10:52 -0700
    Re: 64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-10 08:38 -0700
      Re: 64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-10 10:58 -0700
  Re: 64-bit detection CN <qmbmnp3799@pacbell.net> - 2015-07-09 23:00 -0700
    Re: 64-bit detection "Benjamin David Lunt" <zfysz@fysnet.net> - 2015-07-10 08:40 -0700
      Re: 64-bit detection "James Harris" <james.harris.1@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 21:29 +0100

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