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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
To: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney@localnetsolutions.com>
Cc: palinux <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Firmware upgraded, STI console problem
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 19:57:27 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011212195727.B22198@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1008185675.31094.49.camel@archimedes.localnetsolutions.com>; from jkinney@localnetsolutions.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500

On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 02:34:35PM -0500, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Also, my processor is listed in firmware and docs as a PA8000. So why
> not 64-bit cpu. If I boot the 2.4.16-64 kernel, it hangs after the
> "branching" messege screen. 

this must surely be a faq by now.  the c160-era workstations shipped
with 32-bit firmware, so it's much more sensible to run a 32-bit kernel
on them.  why do people think a 64-bit kernel is better?  it's slower and
takes more ram than a 32-bit kernel.  the only benefit it might offer
(being able to deal with >4gb of ram, or >4gb virtual address space)
aren't applicable -- you can't put that much ram in a c160, and we don't
support 64-bit user processes yet.

-- 
Revolutions do not require corporate support.

  reply	other threads:[~2001-12-12 19:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-12 19:34 [parisc-linux] Firmware upgraded, STI console problem James P. Kinney III
2001-12-12 19:57 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2001-12-12 20:39 ` Grant Grundler
2001-12-12 20:50   ` Tom
2001-12-12 21:02     ` Matthew Wilcox
     [not found]       ` <1008218517.2031.1.camel@crudball>
2001-12-13  5:20         ` Matthew Wilcox
2001-12-13 14:21           ` Ryan Bradetich
2001-12-14 18:58             ` 735 and SCSI (was: Re: [parisc-linux] Firmware upgraded, STI console problem) Phil Anderson
2001-12-14 22:55               ` Richard Hirst
2001-12-17  5:43               ` Ryan Bradetich

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