Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932341AbVILXKL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932342AbVILXKL (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:11 -0400 Received: from [64.162.99.240] ([64.162.99.240]:16123 "EHLO spamtest2.viacore.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932341AbVILXKJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:10:09 -0400 Message-ID: <43260A8D.1090508@spamtest.viacore.net> Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 16:09:01 -0700 From: Joe Bob Spamtest User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050909 Fedora/1.7.10-1.5.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David S. Miller" CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Pure 64 bootloaders References: <4325F3D5.9040109@spamtest.viacore.net> <20050912.144107.37064900.davem@davemloft.net> <4325FADB.4090804@spamtest.viacore.net> <20050912.151230.100651236.davem@davemloft.net> In-Reply-To: <20050912.151230.100651236.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 608 Lines: 14 David S. Miller wrote: > PPC64 is the same, as well as a few others are likely to > be in this boat as well. The only known exception where > 64-bit is a true win is x86_64. ia64 runs terrible in 32 bit mode. but i suppose that because of the nature of ia64 it's really doing emulation anyways. either way, ia64 was a big disappointment to just about everyone. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/