Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752710AbYJTEsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:48:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751813AbYJTEr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:47:57 -0400 Received: from mail.skyusermail.com ([77.240.11.49]:4675 "EHLO mail.skyusermail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802AbYJTEr5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:47:57 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 1822 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 00:47:56 EDT Subject: Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.27-rc1 From: Steven J Newbury To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Eric Anholt , Dave Airlie , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sf.net In-Reply-To: <1224438749.10548.62.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> References: <1224295858.4378.8.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net> <1224316142.4378.17.camel@vonnegut.anholt.net> <1224438749.10548.62.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 05:17:02 +0100 Message-Id: <1224476222.4676.5.camel@infinity.southview.snewbury.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.24.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1248 Lines: 28 On Sun, 2008-10-19 at 19:52 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 00:49 -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > > > 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. > > You can run 32bit user-space on a 64bit kernel just fine. > Any breakage, if anything, you find will need to get fixed anyway. > I'd like to second this. 32bit on 64bit works fine. I've been maintaining separate multilib versions of the Gentoo libdrm/Mesa ebuilds for 32bit/64bit. It is important that the 32bit and 64bit graphics stacks are synchronised, rather than relying on external compatibility libraries as Gentoo does currently. Failing to do so does lead to instability and/or failure. > Also, one would hope Intel is poking these game writers to migrate to > 64bit Linux ;-) > Indeed! :) -- 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/