From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262045AbUEWUvc (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262910AbUEWUvc (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:32 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:7137 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262045AbUEWUva (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:30 -0400 Message-ID: <40B10EC1.3030602@pobox.com> Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Phy Prabab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 References: <20040523194302.81454.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 23 May 2004, Phy Prabab wrote: > >>I have been researching the 4g patches for kernels. >>Seems there was a rift between people over this. Is >>there any plan to resume publishing 4g patches for >>developing kernels? > > > Quite frankly, a number of us are hoping that we can make them > unnecessary. The cost of the 4g/4g split is absolutely _huge_ on some > things, including basic stuff like kernel compiles. Sorta like I'm hoping that cheap and prevalent 64-bit CPUs make PAE36 and PAE40 on ia32 largely unnecessary. Addressing more memory than 32 bits of memory on a 32-bit CPU always seemed like a hack to me, and a source of bugs and lost performance... Jeff