Re: 4g/4g for 2.6.6

[Jeff Garzik]

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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