Re: New Solaris 7 features

Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:39:50 +1100


David S. Miller writes:
> Currently with UltraLinux:
>
> 1) We have no 64-bit userland eventhough the kernel is 64bit

What is the ETA of 64 bit userspace for UltraLinux?

> I was offered to sign some NDA's such that I could be told the
> details of the bug, but I said no. I said no because if they told
> me, I could not implement the workaround described above without
> revealing the details of the instruction sequences which cause the
> problem (and thus breaking the NDA). So my plan is to run a logging
> crashme in 64-bit userland to figure out what they are, and post the
> precise results here and to bugtraq because there is no reason this
> information should not be available to anyone. Sun is only pissing
> people off by witholding the details, so I'll fix that up neatly
> some time soon.

Good. I live in hope that sufficient banging of heads on tables will
knock some sense into these corporate droids.
Yeah, a dream, I know. But dreams keep life worthwhile.

Regards,

Richard....

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