From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <17240.8660.61369.647302@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 09:01:40 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Giuliano Pochini , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linuxppc64-dev@ozlabs.org In-Reply-To: <17221.45591.341270.888791@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <1127865914.6102.0.camel@gaston> <17221.45591.341270.888791@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Subject: Re: Starting the arch/powerpc merge List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , I wrote: > Not really. The main thing in the past has been that DRI with 32-bit > X server and clients would work with a 32-bit kernel but not a 64-bit > kernel, but that's fixed now. A 64-bit kernel is faster on most > lmbench tests. I guess a 32-bit kernel might end up a little smaller, > but that's the only possible advantage I can think of. Oops, sorry, mail system breakage here... Paul.