Is Android 64 bit OS ?

[Deepak]

Hi All

Does Android support 64 bit processors ? If no, is there a plan to
make it 64 bit?

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks,
Deepak

[lijx]

I think android 2.3 support 64 bit processors.

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[kathik keyanvb]

Yes,Android supports 64-bit processor and I have installed and am working on it too...

[Rahul]

Yes ..Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) is targeted for 64 bit processor

[David Turner]

On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:46 AM, Deepak <dip...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All

Does Android support 64 bit processors ?

No, there is no official Android support for 64-bit processors.

 

If no, is there a plan to make it 64 bit?

There is no such plan currently.

 

Appreciate your reply.

Thanks,
Deepak

[Bruce J Beare]

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.

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

[Bernhard Rosenkränzer]

Hi,

On 4 October 2012 07:53, 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.
>
> I've not upstreamed the changes because there appears to be occasional
> issues with the change...

Are they available somewhere? Could be rather interesting...

ttyl
bero

[Zach Pfeffer]

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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[Bruce J Beare]

On Thursday, October 4, 2012 6:40:46 PM UTC-7, Zach Pfeffer wrote:

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?

Since the patches haven't gone out on a product yet, we haven't released them as GPL

open source. I'm willing to do so... but want to work out some internal support issues

first. I'll post back on this thread (hopefully in a few days) with an update.