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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.

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