Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Oct 2000 15:56:34 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: Updated Linux 2.4 Status/TODO List (from the ALS show) |
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On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 02:25:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > And even on alpha, a 32-bit atomic_t means we cover 45 bits of virtual > address space, which, btw, is more than you can cram into the current > three-level page tables, I think.
While that's true of Alpha, it's not true of Ultra III, in which all 64-bits are in theory available to the user. Dave hasn't implemented that yet, AFAIK.
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