Re: New Release

["Martin P. Hellwig" <mhellwig@xxxxxxxxx>]

justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I see no mention of amd64 in the release notes
> > but some mention of it elsewhere. Is this
> > planned? If so in what time frame?
>
>
> It's planned, but the system is going through rapid changes right now. 
> It'll be easier to support other processor architectures once the other
> system features are settled - otherwise, people would be building things
> several times over.
>
> There's a FAQ entry that says essentially this.  It's the same answer for
> things like PowerPC or, say, Sparc, ARM, etc.  I think an ARM port would
> be neat, as there seems to be more small devices these days using that
> CPU.

As a stupid user I wonder what it takes generally to support the AMD 64 
bit extension, what are the typical issues in supporting both 32 and 64 
bit code? Links would be very welcome too :-)

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