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Re: 64bit port

To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Re: 64bit port
From: hpa@transmeta.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Date: 1 May 1999 09:39:27 GMT
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Followup to:  <E10dUur-0001vY-00@devel2.axiom.internal>
By author:    David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@mvhi.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> jj@sunsite.mff.cuni.cz said:
> >  the 64bit kernel is able to run 64bit applications as well (first
> > distributions with 64bit apps should be coming soon though).
> 
> Does that mean the security problems with 64-bit code have been solved?
> 
> The last I heard was that there were UltraSPARC bugs which made it
> undesirable to allow users to run 64-bit code, and Sun weren't
> giving out enough information to make a workaround.
> 

I think that was only UltraSPARC I.

	-hpa
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