From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark Lord Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error. Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:20:58 -0400 Message-ID: <4F9C6D4A.5080608@teksavvy.com> References: <1335447289-9909-1-git-send-email-mjt@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4F9A6ABA.6050503@msgid.tls.msk.ru> <4F9ABF90.5060404@teksavvy.com> <4F9B0378.70906@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4F9B0378.70906@zytor.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: Michael Tokarev , Linus Torvalds , Linux-kernel , autofs@vger.kernel.org, Ian Kent , Thomas Meyer , stable@kernel.org On 12-04-27 04:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 04/27/2012 08:47 AM, Mark Lord wrote: >> On 12-04-27 05:45 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote: >> .. >>> Please note: the talk is about 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel, >>> which should be quite rare these days, or something of less >>> priority. >> >> >> I suspect 32bit-PAE is more common than 32/64, >> but both are valid and not uncommon in the wild. > > 32-on-64 is a very important use case, because it lets us get people off > 32-bit kernels. Agreed. But -PAE is even more important for the millions of people with NVIDIA graphics controllers in their machines, or at least if they want decent video playback. :) The otherwise-excellent NVIDIA drivers don't work in 32/64 mode, but they do handle -PAE just fine. Cheers