Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752773AbYJRHui (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:50:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751441AbYJRHu3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:50:29 -0400 Received: from 69-30-77-85.dq1sn.easystreet.com ([69.30.77.85]:50124 "EHLO camus.anholt.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751281AbYJRHu3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:50:29 -0400 Subject: Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 From: Eric Anholt To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Dave Airlie , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net In-Reply-To: References: <1224295858.4378.8.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-oRxTAPOyBhDppQgu9B6i" Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:49:02 -0700 Message-Id: <1224316142.4378.17.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1854 Lines: 53 --=-oRxTAPOyBhDppQgu9B6i Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 19:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: >=20 > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Eric Anholt wrote: > >=20 > > Yeah, none of us are on x86-64, so we missed those warnings in testing. >=20 > Really? None of you use any modern CPU's, or you're _all_ running 32-bit=20 > distros even though your cpu's could support 64-bit ones? >=20 > I would suggest at least _somebody_ in the intel graphics team try to get= =20 > with the times.. I realize that Otellini was saying "Nobody needs 64-bit=20 > on the desktop" a few years ago, but he was full of sh*t then, and it's=20 > certainly not remotely true now. >=20 > It's not being disloyal to your CEO, really. I'm pretty sure nobody will=20 > be fired just for ignoring that whole "640kB^H^H^H^H^H32-bits should be=20 > 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. --=20 Eric Anholt eric@anholt.net eric.anholt@intel.com --=-oRxTAPOyBhDppQgu9B6i Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAkj5lO4ACgkQHUdvYGzw6vfiyQCfQSnJLeXYrzvbQM7qK0zaL13W gqUAni82mqQdq57lxyPVmfus8C0BXrwa =rTXY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-oRxTAPOyBhDppQgu9B6i-- -- 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/