[haiku-development] Re: Feasibility of a 64-bit port?
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:45:50 +0200
On 2009-08-28 at 17:22:32 [+0200], Kira Scarlett <rhys@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> To familiarize myself some with the Haiku codebase, I'm looking at
> potentially developing a port for one of two platforms: either the ADI
> Blackfin DSP or the Intel Itanium.
No idea where Blackfin is used, supposedly embedded hardware, but Itanium
sound sound more interesting. A port to the way more popular Intel 64
architecture would be way more interesting even, of course, (and probably
even easier), but any 64 bit port helps for that purpose.
> Since Itanium is a 64-bit platform, how
> complex would it be to run Haiku on a 64-bit architecture? I'm assuming at
> minimum quite a bit of code relies on things like specific datatype sizes.
I believe the kernel is in not too bad a shape with respect to 64 bit
safeness, and off the top of my head I wouldn't expect that many problems
with Be API code either. I'm not sure about ported code, but most of it
isn't that old and should be 64 bit aware already. Maybe a few "config.h"s
have to be adjusted. Our (partially) old glibc may or may not give trouble.
However, while I'm sure there is a bit of code that isn't 64 bit safe yet,
the architecture porting part will be by far the main work.
CU, Ingo
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