Re: [PATCH v2] Introduce a version6 of autofs interface, to fix design error.

Mark Lord
2012-04-28T22:21:01Z

On 12-04-27 04:37 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 04/27/2012 08:47 AM, Mark Lord wrote:
>> On 12-04-27 05:45 AM, Michael Tokarev wrote:
>> ..
>>> Please note: the talk is about 32bit userspace on 64bit kernel,
>>> which should be quite rare these days, or something of less
>>> priority.
>>
>>
>> I suspect 32bit-PAE is more common than 32/64,
>> but both are valid and not uncommon in the wild.
>
> 32-on-64 is a very important use case, because it lets us get people off
> 32-bit kernels.

Agreed. But -PAE is even more important for the millions of people
with NVIDIA graphics controllers in their machines, or at least if
they want decent video playback. :)

The otherwise-excellent NVIDIA drivers don't work in 32/64 mode,
but they do handle -PAE just fine.

Cheers