Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 23 May 2004 18:55:45 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 |
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On Sun, 23 May 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > 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...
I agree. I held out on PAE for a longish while, in the unrealistic hope that people would switch to alpha's.
Oh, well. I don't expect _everybody_ to switch to x86-64 immediately, but I hope we can hold out long enough without 4g that it does work out this time.
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