Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753250Ab1BLXEY (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:04:24 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49341 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752857Ab1BLXEU (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:04:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4D5711E0.7020306@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 15:04:00 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101209 Fedora/3.1.7-0.35.b3pre.fc14 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: x32-abi@googlegroups.com CC: Florian Weimer , "H.J. Lu" , GCC Development , GNU C Library , LKML Subject: Re: X32 psABI status References: <87aai1gdr7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> In-Reply-To: <87aai1gdr7.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 633 Lines: 18 On 02/12/2011 01:10 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: > Why is the ia32 compatiblity kernel interface used? Because there is no way in hell we're designing in a second compatibility ABI in the kernel (and it has to be a compatibility ABI, because of the pointer size difference.) -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/