Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759981AbYBTKXf (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:23:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752092AbYBTKX2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:23:28 -0500 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39011 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752073AbYBTKX1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:23:27 -0500 From: Andi Kleen Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) To: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:23:23 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: mingo@elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20080209416.271135970@suse.de> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802201123.23830.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 712 Lines: 22 On Wednesday 20 February 2008 11:07:02 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > We know it is already after 2000. > > > > > > This extends the effective lifetime of 32bit systems by 8 years: > > > from 2030 to 2038. > > Could you please explain what magic math does the 2030 -> 2038 > extension ? Hmm, yes on rechecking I also don't know how I got the original conclusion. -Andi -- 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/