Re: [coLinux-devel] x64 version of CoLinux

[peter g. <plugwash@P10Link.net>]

>I don't know anything about a linux host, but on x64 windows, x86 programs
running in ring 3 are fully supported. Accordint
>to Microsoft documentation, if an x86 application depends on some device
driver, then only the device driver needs to be
>.replaced with an x64 version. I believe that if linux.sys were ported to
x64, then the current x86 version of the CoLinux
>executables would run unmodified.

the windows side userland executables for colinux may well do so but running
a 32 bit linux kernel would require fully switching the processor out of 32
bit mode, which is probablly more work (and much slower) than using a 64 bit
linux kernel (which can if desired run a 32 bit linux userland).