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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
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On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 09:17:12PM +0000, Dominic Sweetman wrote:

> > I guess what I'm looking for is what I should tell someone who wants
> > to run MIPS Linux 64-bit with 8 gigs of RAM.
> 
> "Ask Ralf".  (at least, that's the best advice for the kernel, which
> he worked on at SGI).

Tested with upto 128gb :-)

> For a compiler, you should ask Algorithmics.  We haven't tried the
> 64-bit configuration yet, but we've done lots of GCC variants and it's
> only a program...

May I have full support for N32 and N64 tomorrow after lunch, please ;-)

  Ralf