Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:35:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:35:56 -0500 Received: from mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net ([167.206.5.45]:62364 "EHLO mta10.srv.hcvlny.cv.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:35:55 -0500 Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:42:46 -0500 From: Rob Wilkens Subject: Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) In-reply-to: To: Chuck Wolber Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Linux kernel list Reply-to: robw@optonline.net Message-id: <1042382565.848.11.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> Organization: Robert Wilkens MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.1 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 872 Lines: 20 On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:47, Chuck Wolber wrote: > > > As per buggy hardware, the software should _not_ have to support it. > > > The software should report that the hardware has a bug and stop. > > > Otherwise, you wind up writing really bad code for other hardware at > > > the same time that you're trying to work with one particular piece of > > > bad hardware. > > Good point! It's time we stopped supporting those Intel processors... Ignorring the well popularized floating point bug in the pentium, to which there was a bug, are there many other bugs you run accross in the pentium while kernel programming? -Rob - 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/