From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 9 18:46:02 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7D41065672 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:46:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.177]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC7B38FC0C for ; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 18:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so512318ele.13 for ; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:01 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; bh=M24QnCf6q62kIFgvngm1kM130VPoN5MGlmJuMtCjRwQ=; b=Ny0u/GKjHe/M47OTLjmVV8lDakS+pN7qY00zIJ7HiYDvSb0BjZQEr+pcADTf69vLdI jpFDy4rMb5c7ZofTKp2vPle7Lfih0FQ3uB1+U4BDzZm374SWp4MF+f/BtAkSZcEbSVKG jXPvGrVqYBbEmkWvmqzXQpGHd2SZAEMpZNFXE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:references; b=KjcXIOzNu6LQtAXej3FJ7JQ65qNkSYObXhLs4BWH6Aei39208X8xAAI3S35bYea5qK dewlgcdnlHxGsGtBcCErkseyVrxhC3vHn0uz6RK7dyk20HLVauVj0TKTTMbR4vTZcqQ2 Q53RXUdE1bXtr3OjtEPUYnONytanQ4mq6Jebs= Received: by 10.151.155.5 with SMTP id h5mr12889011ybo.178.1215629161061; Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:46:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.150.137.11 with HTTP; Wed, 9 Jul 2008 11:46:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5f67a8c40807091146s2dd55013l60fcaa3a22df65@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2008 14:46:00 -0400 From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" To: "Mike Meyer" In-Reply-To: <20080709143208.4573c6a8@mbook.local> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <5f67a8c40807081521o1f32660ak392672da61e490fd@mail.gmail.com> <86bq172t3t.fsf@ds4.des.no> <8e10486b0807090450n618bab5aj140fc6b4e6b42bb7@mail.gmail.com> <86zlor88de.fsf@ds4.des.no> <5f67a8c40807091050k3b6afa02n3c27a14de2466e0c@mail.gmail.com> <20080709143208.4573c6a8@mbook.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Alexandre Biancalana , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Glaring 64 bit omission X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:46:02 -0000 On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Mike Meyer wrote: > On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:50:17 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" > wrote: > > I did mention in my introduction that I was aware of this history > (including > > that web page). I brought this up again because it hadn't seen daylight > in > > quite some time. The Wiki page seems to say that it was updated about a > > month ago. Without figuring how to pull the wiki's version history, I > don't > > see significant change. Of note, the last conversation the wiki > references > > is 8 months old. > > Um, how do you figure last conversation with wiki references is 8 > months old? It got brought up in a converation on -hackers just last > month: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-June/024956.html > While I don't follow freebsd-chat with any regularity, My point was that the wiki didn't reverence any conversations newer than 8 months old still stands. That conversation is not referenced by the wiki. It may be an example of someone bringing up the question without doing research, but that is not the case here, either. > In particular, none of these activities seem to pop up in the regular > > FreeBSD Project status reports. > > None of them are important enough to warrant it. On that, you and I differ. Aside from nvidia requesting them, the 5 points all seem very relevant to 64-bit systems in general.