Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 16:51:13 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 |
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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
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