Re: [Qemu-devel] x86-64 port

[Fabrice Bellard]

Fabrice Bellard wrote:
> Gwenole Beauchesne wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Nick Snellock wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is anyone working on an x86-64 port?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Not me :-) An x86-64 host port would be very interesting because the 
> > > 64 bit host MMU could be used to remap the whole emulated 4GB address 
> > > space.
> >
> >
> >
> > Fabrice, remember that I posted AMD64 support bits to the list some 
> > time ago? ;-) This works for user mode applications. As for the soft 
> > mmu, the current code is not 64-bit clean. I had some patches but they 
> > were not enough and are in a dormant state since. So remapping the 
> > whole 4GB address space is probably a faster and simpler fix indeed.
>
>
> Sorry - I should have merged it before ! If you can generate a new patch 
> against the current CVS I'll merge it (if you don't have time I can 
> begin to look at it - I am looking now at the version you posted). If 
> the user mode is working, most of the work is done.

It seems easy to merge... so I am merging it now.

Fabrice.