Re: Kernel 2.6 for R4600 Indy

["Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@gentoo.org>]

Robin Humble wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 2004 at 09:05:17AM -0400, Stephen P. Becker wrote:
>
> > Heh...I hope you are prepared for a significant slowdown if you end up 
> > trying to run n64 userland on such a machine.
>
> why's that?
Mostly, 64-bit binaries are much larger than 32-bit.  Consider that the 
scsi controller in an Indy gets about 2mb/sec throughput MAX (on a good 
day).  Also, Indys don't support a large enough memory configuration 
that 64-bit would be worth it anyhow.
What you would *really* want on such a machine would be n32 userland. 
You get full 64-bit instructions, but the binaries aren't huge.

Steve