Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>, akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020902000516.GA38501@dragon.nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <3D6F8941.111A0C39@mindspring.com> References: <200208301437.g7UEbxL36566@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> <3D6F8941.111A0C39@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 08:03:29AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > For all we know, AMD has gotten out of the new Silicon business all > together, and will simply be shipping upgraded simulators of things > which would be cool if they were ever taped out, plactic'ed, and > slotted in a ZIF in non-existant motherboards, but which, in reality, > never make it to glass. WTF are you talking about?!?!?!? I have 2 AMD x86-64 1P Clawhammers undermydesk. I also have a 2P x86-64 Sledgehammer nearby. The Clawhammer desktop systems will ship 1Q03. 2P systems will come out 1H03. > > I just wish AMD added an 8K page size so the Page Table Maps did not > > eat so much memory. > > More proof that hardware people don't ask software people how they > expect to use the hardware after it's built. Feh. The x86-64 'swapgs' instruction was added at the direct request of the SuSE Linux folks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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