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| author | jbranso@dismail.de <jbranso@dismail.de> | 2024-09-20 21:02:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2024-09-22 22:14:21 +0200 |
| commit | 8a9c5d9999222a62f8dd9e0b0bd84ef75e4550ee (patch) | |
| tree | bc98e462817dd690e56acca9499545ed4f114da7 /faq/64-bit.mdwn | |
| parent | 10aafaaccbba346a75040b6aa6dbc5e9d04d4cf6 (diff) | |
I updated the 64 bit port status.
* faq/64-bit.mdwn: updated status information: libdiskfs/ext2fs
deadlocks
* open_issues/64-bit_port.mdwn: I mentioned the status of bootstrap
efforts of Debian Hurd, Alpine-Hurd, and Guix Hurd.
Message-ID: <20240921010651.5189-3-jbranso@dismail.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'faq/64-bit.mdwn')
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/64-bit.mdwn | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/faq/64-bit.mdwn b/faq/64-bit.mdwn index 972aafbe..a41d215d 100644 --- a/faq/64-bit.mdwn +++ b/faq/64-bit.mdwn @@ -21,9 +21,12 @@ A 64-bit GNU/Hurd is also coming soon, progress is tracked on [[open_issues/64-bit_port]]! Hurd developers ported GNUMach to 64-bit some time ago. Then they started making significant progress -on the x86_64 userland port in Feb 2023. As of May 2023, the 64-bit -port works well enough to start all the essential Hurd servers, run -/bin/sh, establish TCP/IP connections, and compile C. We are currently building +on the x86_64 userland port in Feb 2023. As of September 2024, the +Debian hurd-amd64 port works just like the hurd-i386, except for +missing packages and more +[[bugs|https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2024-07/msg00058.html]], +namely swapping issues with rumpdisk and deadlocking issues with +libdiskfs/ext2fs. We are currently building 64-bit packages. We plan on supporting both a 32-bit and 64-bit Debian GNU/Hurd, only not both at the same time. However, there is no plan to fix the year 2038 concern on a 32-bit system. |