Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270864AbTG1Tlq (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:41:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270880AbTG1Tlq (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:41:46 -0400 Received: from mail.jlokier.co.uk ([81.29.64.88]:899 "EHLO mail.jlokier.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270864AbTG1Tln (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Jul 2003 15:41:43 -0400 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:41:27 +0100 From: Jamie Lokier To: "David S. Miller" Cc: Jack Dennon , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The well-factored 386 Message-ID: <20030728194127.GA10673@mail.jlokier.co.uk> References: <03072809023201.00228@linux24> <20030728093245.60e46186.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030728093245.60e46186.davem@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 22 David S. Miller wrote: > He talks about his x86 emulator he wrote, and people complain to me > all the time about his postings. > > Nobody ever follows up to any of his postings, he's not even > discussing anything, he's just showing how great he thinkgs > his x86 emulator is. I didn't realise he was talking about an x86 emulator. I thought he was analyzing real hardware. The one thing that made it on-topic for me was his quiet suggestion that "forreal" mode interrupts are faster, and that it might, perhaps, be possible to modify a Linux kernel to run in that mode - to take advantage of the faster interrupts. -- Jamie - 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/