From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4JJNmnC007913 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:23:48 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4JJNmUm007912 for linux-mips-outgoing; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:23:48 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4JJNknC007900 for ; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:23:46 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g4JJOJT03014; Sun, 19 May 2002 12:24:19 -0700 Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 12:24:19 -0700 From: Ralf Baechle To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Matthew Dharm , Linux-MIPS Subject: Re: MIPS 64? Message-ID: <20020519122419.B20670@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <20020515214818.GA1991@nevyn.them.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020515214818.GA1991@nevyn.them.org>; from dan@debian.org on Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:48:18PM -0400 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:48:18PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 02:34:47PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: > > So... I'm looking at porting Linux to a system with 1.5GiB of RAM. > > That kinda blows the 32-bit MIPS port option right out of the water... > > Not unless you count bits differently than I do... 32-bit is 4 GiB. Is > there any reason MIPS has special problems in this area? The basic assumption is that we can address all memory through KSEG0. Ralf