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 g5J9WGnC013576 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:32:16 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g5J9WGQg013575 for linux-mips-outgoing; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:32:16 -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 (c-180-196-131.ka.dial.de.ignite.net [62.180.196.131]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g5J9WBnC013572 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 02:32:12 -0700 Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g5J9Wii22209; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:32:44 +0200 Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:32:44 +0200 From: Ralf Baechle To: Justin Carlson Cc: Carsten Langgaard , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: 64-bit kernel Message-ID: <20020619113244.B22048@dea.linux-mips.net> References: <3D0F28AE.7B0D822B@mips.com> <1024416198.1166.1.camel@xyzzy.rlson.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: <1024416198.1166.1.camel@xyzzy.rlson.org>; from justin@cs.cmu.edu on Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0700 X-Accept-Language: de,en,fr Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:03:18AM -0700, Justin Carlson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 05:33, Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > I don't know if anymore has a interest in the 64-bit kernel, but I just > > found this bug (see patch below). > > It would be nice to know, how many are interested in the 64-bit kernel > > and who actually got something running. > > So please rise you voice. > > Been running 64-bit stuff here, but nothing even remotely fpu intensive. > It's quite possible we'd never run into this case. At this time probably most 64-bit kernels are running on a certain 64-bit CPU with it's hardware fp disabled so nobody ever saw this one. Ralf