From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263876AbUEXDbF (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263869AbUEXDbF (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:31:05 -0400 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.102]:7871 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263865AbUEXDa6 (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 23:30:58 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 20:30:52 -0700 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: Jeff Garzik , Linus Torvalds cc: Phy Prabab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 Message-ID: <339700000.1085369451@[10.10.2.4]> In-Reply-To: <40B15BB5.4040508@pobox.com> References: <20040523194302.81454.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <40B10EC1.3030602@pobox.com> <40B15BB5.4040508@pobox.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.2.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Since these CPUs run in 32-bit mode just fine, I bet you wind up with > people running Intel or AMD 64-bit CPUs long they abandon their 32-bit OS. > I recall people often purchasing gigabit ethernet cards long before they > had a gigabit switch, simply because it was the volume technology that > was being at the time. I think the same thing is going to happen here, > with AMD64 and EM64T. Except some bright spark at Intel decided to fix the low end stuff first, and not the high end stuff for ages. Marvellous - all those 64GB 2 CPU boxes are fixed. Triples all round. > AMD got a lot of things right with this one... If the rest of the world would catch up, I'd be a happy man ... M.