* H. Peter Anvin: > On 02/12/2011 01:10 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: >> Why is the ia32 compatiblity kernel interface used? > > Because there is no way in hell we're designing in a second > compatibility ABI in the kernel (and it has to be a compatibility ABI, > because of the pointer size difference.)
Actually, I'm wondering if you can do the translation in user space. There already are 32-on-64 implementations in existence, without kernel changes (recent Hotspot, LuaJIT, and probably some more).
