From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>
To: Robin Humble <rjh@cita.utoronto.ca>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:27:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <415420D0.60102@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040924131734.GC26710@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca>
Robin Humble wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:05:17AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>
>>Heh...I hope you are prepared for a significant slowdown if you end up
>>trying to run n64 userland on such a machine.
>
>
> why's that?
>
Mostly, 64-bit binaries are much larger than 32-bit. Consider that the
scsi controller in an Indy gets about 2mb/sec throughput MAX (on a good
day). Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration
that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow.
What you would *really* want on such a machine would be n32 userland.
You get full 64-bit instructions, but the binaries aren't huge.
Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-24 13:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-23 13:54 Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy Stuart Longland
2004-09-23 14:51 ` Ladislav Michl
2004-09-23 15:00 ` Stephen P. Becker
2004-09-24 0:16 ` Stuart Longland
2004-09-24 9:07 ` Florian Lohoff
2004-09-24 15:42 ` Stuart Longland
2004-09-24 16:44 ` Florian Lohoff
2004-09-24 13:05 ` Stephen P. Becker
2004-09-24 13:17 ` Robin Humble
2004-09-24 13:27 ` Stephen P. Becker [this message]
2004-09-24 13:43 ` Robin Humble
2004-09-24 15:13 ` Stephen P. Becker
2004-09-23 15:48 ` Florian Lohoff
2004-10-02 18:50 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-10-02 20:40 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-10-02 23:47 ` Thiemo Seufer
2004-10-03 0:58 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-04 14:52 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-10-04 23:48 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-05 19:04 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-10-05 19:35 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-10-07 12:28 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-10-03 11:40 ` Thomas Bogendoerfer
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