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Andi Kleen authored
This adds the x86_64 arch and asm directories and a Documentation/x86_64. It took a bit longer because I first had to make preemption and thread_info work and also found some other bugs while doing this. The port has been tested for a long time on UP. I'm not sure what I should describe. A lot is based on i386 with a lot of cleanups. I wrote a paper about it for last year's OLS that describes most of the changes (ftp://ftp.firstfloor.org/pub/ak/x86_64.ps.gz). It is a bit outdated now, but should give a good overview. It currently has a completely cut'n'pasted from others+hacked 32bit emulation. I hope to clean that up in the future by merging the generic core of this with other 64bit archs. Thanks, -Andi
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