Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:42:39 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: 1GB/2GB/3GB User Space Splitting Patch 2.6.8.1 (PSEUDO SPAM) |
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On Iau, 2004-08-26 at 05:49, William Lee Irwin III wrote: >> Though asinine, the ABI spec is set in stone.
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 01:48:14PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > Lots of Linux configuration options build you systems that don't meet > some specifications. "Intentionally violate a stupid spec to get work > done" is a good option 8)
The big nasty is that userspace has very little to go on here. We need to report the limits of the address space somewhere for this kind of affair and probably even hammer out our own addenda to ABI specs so instead of SVR4 $ARCH/ELF ABI spec we have a Linux $ARCH/ELF ABI spec. I see no one so motivated to make backward-incompatible ABI changes that they are willing to do that kind of work.
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