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    SubjectRe: 4g/4g for 2.6.6
    Linus Torvalds wrote:
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    > 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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