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From: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:49:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1224316142.4378.17.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810171941120.3438@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

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On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > 
> > Yeah, none of us are on x86-64, so we missed those warnings in testing.
> 
> Really? None of you use any modern CPU's, or you're _all_ running 32-bit 
> distros even though your cpu's could support 64-bit ones?
> 
> I would suggest at least _somebody_ in the intel graphics team try to get 
> with the times.. I realize that Otellini was saying "Nobody needs 64-bit 
> on the desktop" a few years ago, but he was full of sh*t then, and it's 
> certainly not remotely true now.
> 
> It's not being disloyal to your CEO, really. I'm pretty sure nobody will 
> be fired just for ignoring that whole "640kB^H^H^H^H^H32-bits should be 
> enough for everybody" idiocy.

Writing 3D drivers means running 3D games.  Running 3D games
unfortunately means running a lot of 32-bit userland as the fun stuff is
binary-only.  So I stick to a 32-bit system, becuase past experience
trying to run both on the same system has been misery.

-- 
Eric Anholt
eric@anholt.net                         eric.anholt@intel.com



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-18  7:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-17 21:29 [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 Dave Airlie
2008-10-17 22:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18  2:10   ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-18  2:47     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18  3:49       ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18  6:44         ` Corbin Simpson
2008-10-18  7:49       ` Eric Anholt [this message]
2008-10-19 17:52         ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-20  4:17           ` Steven J Newbury
2008-10-20 16:31         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-20 20:04     ` Jesse Barnes
2008-10-18  9:11   ` Dave Airlie
2008-10-18  1:37 ` Nick Piggin
2008-10-18 19:11   ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 19:31     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-18 20:07       ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-18 20:20       ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 20:37       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-18 21:51         ` Keith Packard
2008-10-18 22:32           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-18 22:47             ` Jon Smirl
2008-10-18 22:53               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-19  0:38             ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19  1:06               ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-19  1:15                 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 10:01               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19  4:14             ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19  6:41               ` Keith Packard
2008-10-19 17:53                 ` io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 18:00                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-10-19 19:07                   ` Eric Anholt
2008-10-20 11:55                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-20 12:20                       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19 21:04                   ` Keith Packard
2008-10-20 11:58                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-20 15:49                       ` Keith Packard
2008-10-22  9:36                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23  7:14                           ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23  7:14                             ` [PATCH] Add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures Keith Packard
2008-10-23  7:14                               ` [PATCH] [drm/i915] Use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges Keith Packard
2008-10-24  4:49                               ` [PATCH] Add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures Randy Dunlap
2008-10-24  6:26                                 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23  8:05                             ` io resources and cached mappings (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23 15:39                               ` Keith Packard
2008-11-03  7:00                                 ` Dave Airlie
2008-11-03 10:48                                   ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-03 16:36                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-11-03 16:53                                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-03 17:29                                       ` [git pull] IO mappings, #2 Ingo Molnar
2008-11-04 22:36                                         ` Jonathan Corbet
2008-11-05  9:01                                           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-23 20:22                           ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Keith Packard
2008-10-23 20:38                             ` Andrew Morton
2008-10-23 21:03                               ` Keith Packard
2008-10-23 21:24                               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24  1:50                                 ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24  2:48                                   ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24  3:24                                     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-24  5:37                                       ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 14:53                                         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-24 15:45                                           ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24  4:29                                     ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24  6:22                                     ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24  7:33                                       ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24  8:38                                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24  9:19                                           ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24  9:32                                             ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24 11:04                                               ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24 15:48                                         ` Keith Packard
2008-10-24 10:18                                           ` Thomas Hellström
2008-10-24  9:14                                     ` Adding kmap_atomic_prot_pfn (was: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1) Ingo Molnar
2008-10-24  3:21                                 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-10-20 10:10                   ` io resources and cached mappings " Ingo Molnar
2008-10-19  4:28             ` [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 Yinghai Lu
2008-10-19  3:14       ` Nick Piggin

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