From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 1 17: 5:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D9737B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.92.13.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA4BE43E75 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g8205HcV038825; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8205GUv038824; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:05:16 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Terry Lambert Cc: mark tinguely , akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE Message-ID: <20020902000516.GA38501@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200208301437.g7UEbxL36566@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> <3D6F8941.111A0C39@mindspring.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3D6F8941.111A0C39@mindspring.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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