On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 11:25:54 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>It is, though, curious that there must be, as Paul Gilmartin points
>out, quite a bit of infrastructure already there in support of 64-bit
>addresses. The real PSW is at all times beyond the early stage of IPL
>a zArch one of 128 bits, and it must be saved and restored properly,
>as must things like PER addresses in control registers. What remains
>to be done?
>
All this can be done internally.  Changing GUPI control blocks may
pose a different sort of challenge.  It might even require changes
as basic as formatting dumps.

-- gil

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