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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-19 14:28:22 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2021-08-19 14:28:22 +0200
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[[!meta title="Is there a 64-bit version?"]]
-There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland, but there are plans for 64-bit
-kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit to efficiently make
-use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland addressing space.
-[[Work on this|open_issues/64-bit_port]] is currently in the master-x86_64 and
-port-amd64 branches for GNU Mach.
+There are currently no plan for 64-bit userland for the short term, but there
+are plans for 64-bit kernelland with 32-bit userland, which will notably permit
+to efficiently make use of more than 2 GiB memory and provide 4 GiB userland
+addressing space. The kernel support was merged into GNU Mach, the currently
+missing bit is the 32/64 mig translation for kernel RPCs.
That being said, you can always run a 32-bit version on a 64-bit machine, it
just works, processes are just limited to a couple GiB available memory.