From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263823AbUEXB6o (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263824AbUEXB6o (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:44 -0400 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:52687 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263823AbUEXB6n (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 May 2004 21:58:43 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 18:55:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Jeff Garzik cc: Phy Prabab , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6 In-Reply-To: <40B10EC1.3030602@pobox.com> Message-ID: References: <20040523194302.81454.qmail@web90007.mail.scd.yahoo.com> <40B10EC1.3030602@pobox.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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. Linus