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task #9437: Submission of Porting to AMD32 architecture

Submitted by:  Robert Millan <robertmh>
Submitted on:  Wed 27 May 2009 11:37:19 PM UTC  
 
Should Start On: Wed 27 May 2009 10:00:00 PM UTCShould be Finished on: Sat 06 Jun 2009 10:00:00 PM UTC
Category: Project ApprovalPriority: 5 - Normal
Status: NonePrivacy: Public
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Open/Closed: OpenEffort: 0.00

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Wed 27 May 2009 11:37:19 PM UTC, original submission:

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  • Name: Porting to AMD32 architecture
  • System Name: amd32
  • Type: non-GNU software & documentation
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (Multiple licenses. Some of the code we'll be modifiing is GPLv2-only (linux), some is GPLv3+ (binutils, gcc), some is LGPLv2.1 (glibc), etc.

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Description:

The AMD64 architecture provides a revised, much improved revision to legacy IA32 instruction set. However, since it operates with 64-bit pointers, the majority of programs use more memory than they would otherwise need.

This project attempts to leverage existing AMD64 hardware to operate with 32-bit pointers. It comprises the following goals:

- Modify Linux to identify amd32 binaries and allocate their processes in a 32-bit virtual address space.
- Add support for amd32 binaries to the GNU toolchain.
- Port GNU libc and the rest of userland.

Other Software Required:

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Tarball URL:

http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/amd32.tar.gz

Robert Millan <robertmh>

 

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