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[LIU Qi <liuqi82@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 09:17:35PM +1200, Kai-Cheung Leung wrote:
 >  From previous discussions, it seems that the agreed way is:
 >  - n64 kernel
 >  - n32 userland
 >  - plus n64:
 >  ? - glibc
 >  ? - library and runtimes of other programming languages (such as
 >  python, ruby, haskell, Java),
 >  ? - blas and other libraries that are likely to be used by programs
 >  requiring > 4GB memory.
Yes, that is one option we will work and are working on. Also I have
discussed with Michael about the support of mips o32 system. Debian
already has mips o32 port and this port is widely used in many areas.
Besides, the mips n32 port will bring us huge amount of work in some
application, such as firefox and so on. So we also want to support mips
o32 port.
 > 
 >  And given that the Debian team has already got the n32 base system
 >  working, should be easy for us to use that to bootstrap to Ubuntu, but
 >  Michael wants n64 kernel (to support >4GB of global address space),
 >  would it be easy to compile an n64 Ubuntu kernel?
Currently the Linux kernel for Loongson is already 64-bit capability.
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