--- I explained that the Hurd has initial 64-bit support, but I did not mention if the project plans to drop 32-bit support. Joshua
faq/64-bit.mdwn | 10 +++------- open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn | 6 +----- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/faq/64-bit.mdwn b/faq/64-bit.mdwn index 2e1278cb..82513d25 100644 --- a/faq/64-bit.mdwn +++ b/faq/64-bit.mdwn @@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]] -There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland for the short term, but there -are plans for 64-bit kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit -to efficiently make use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland -addressing space. The kernel support was merged into GNU Mach, the currently -missing bit is the 32/64 mig translation for kernel RPCs. +As of May 2023, the Hurd developers have a bootable 64-bit Debian +GNU/Hurd. The 64 bit kernel and userspace is mostly working, but bugs +still need to be fixed. -That being said, you can always run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, it -just works, processes are just limited to a couple GiB available memory. diff --git a/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn b/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn index 95761828..ca30ba64 100644 --- a/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn @@ -13,11 +13,7 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] [[!inline pages="title(Is there a 64-bit version?)" feeds="no" raw="yes"]] -**What is left for initial support (32-on-64) is** - - * Fixing bugs :) - -**For pure 64bit support, we need to** +**For 64-bit support, we need to** * Fix bugs :) * bootstrap a distrib -- 2.32.0
