From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 30 20:40:55 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 1510D37B400 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:40:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D448743E42 for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C37612A7D6; Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:40:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: mark tinguely Cc: akoskine@cc.helsinki.fi, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More dynamic KVA_SPACE In-Reply-To: <200208301437.g7UEbxL36566@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2002 20:40:52 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020831034052.C37612A7D6@canning.wemm.org> 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 mark tinguely wrote: > > Another interesting processor family is the AMD x86-64 ClawHammer. > I do not know the progress the FreeBSD/x86-64 project. I would imagine > the major difficulty will be getting a running compiler. Nope, the compiler is already pretty robust. > I just wish AMD added an 8K page size so the Page Table Maps did not > eat so much memory. It would have been nice, yes. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message