On 4 October 2012 09:53, Bruce J Beare <
bruce....@intel.com> wrote:
> I've run Android (32 bit user space) with a 64bit kernel. The main
> difficulty that you will run into is the binder.
> The binder likes to think that the kernel and user space are both running in
> 32bit. I have mods for the binder
> to add a (somewhat hacked together) compat32 mode.
Bruce, have you pushed your patches anywhere public?
> I've not upstreamed the changes because there appears to be occasional
> issues with the change... it works quite
> well for small scale development and testing, but causes an occasional
> issue.
>
> WRT a 64bit user mode... I am not aware of any work in that area.
>
> -Bruce
>
> On Tuesday, July 5, 2011 9:46:02 PM UTC-7, Deepak wrote:
>>
>> Hi All
>>
>> Does Android support 64 bit processors ? If no, is there a plan to
>> make it 64 bit?
>>
>> Appreciate your reply.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Deepak
>
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