POPLOG FOR AMD 64-BIT CPU RUNNING LINUX
Updated: 11 Jun 2005

This is a test version of AMD64 Poplog based on
    linux poplog version 15.6
        Available here:

        http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6

The AMD64 version included in this tar file is available in
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/v15.6-amd64

That is where updates will be provided.

The conversion to AMD64 was done by Waldek Hebisch, starting
from linux poplog version 15.53. His patch file was applied
to the v15.6 sources as described in

     http://www.math.uni.wroc.pl/~hebisch/poplog/amd64-poplog.html

and
     http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/poplog/amd64/

Tests of this system led to various bug-fixes supplied by Waldek
and installed in this system.

However, there are still things that do not work as expected, including
some of the X window facilities.

There may also be problems with saved images which is why the
version of
    pop/com/mkstartup

provided here has been altered to remove -nonwriteable, which caused
problems with lconstant local structures in lib rc_window_object

Also, if 64-bit poplog is liked with motif, then clicking on the 'close'
button on graphical windows produced by pop11 kills the poplog process
instead of simply closing the window. This does not happen if poplog is
linked without motif. So this version is linked without motif, and XVed
therefore does not have menus or scrollbar.

You can run 32bit linux poplog linked with motif on a 64bit AMD athlon.
In fact it will run a bit faster for most applications..

Nevertheless this seems to be a highly usable version of Poplog.
Please report any problems to the poplog-dev email list AT
cs.bham.ac.uk

Very many thanks to Waldek for taking this on.

Aaron Sloman
Sun Mar 13 22:24:39 GMT 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/