From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Eric Anholt <eric@anholt.net>
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: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:31:49 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810200929360.3518@nehalem.linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1224316142.4378.17.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net>
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Eric Anholt wrote:
>
> > 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.
That's not a very good reason, though. We're supposed to be perfectly
binary compatible, so it would actually be *better* if you did the testing
using a 64-bit kernel.
Sure, don't do it on _all_ machines, but running 32-bit user land is
definitely not a valid reason to avoid a 64-bit kernel. Quite the reverse.
We'd like to see more coverage.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-20 16:32 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
2008-10-19 17:52 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-20 4:17 ` Steven J Newbury
2008-10-20 16:31 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
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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