From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:13:34 +0100 (BST) Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu ([IPv6:::ffff:198.82.162.213]:50183 "EHLO lennier.cc.vt.edu") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 16:13:30 +0100 Received: from zidane.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-zidane [10.1.1.13]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i8OFDTol317448; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:13:29 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [128.173.184.75] (gs75.geol.vt.edu [128.173.184.75]) by zidane.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.4.8-GR) with ESMTP id BQB50375; Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:13:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4154398E.3070806@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:13:18 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robin Humble CC: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy References: <4152D58B.608@longlandclan.hopto.org> <4152E4FC.8000408@gentoo.org> <41536765.9000304@longlandclan.hopto.org> <41541B8D.3060500@gentoo.org> <20040924131734.GC26710@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> <415420D0.60102@gentoo.org> <20040924134334.GB27739@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> In-Reply-To: <20040924134334.GB27739@lemming.cita.utoronto.ca> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.86.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 5889 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: geoman@gentoo.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips >>day). Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration >>that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow. > > > indeed they don't. > do you get access to more registers or more efficient instruction sets > like you do on x86_64? > > >>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. > Yeah, that is what n32 is for. You get more registers, but pointers are still 32-bit. You still need a mips64 CHOST to build n32 binaries, however. Steve