Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263580AbUDGNyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:54:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263627AbUDGNyo (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:54:44 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:38529 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263580AbUDGNyn (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:54:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 09:56:11 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Mohamed Aslan cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org Subject: Re: Rewrite Kernel In-Reply-To: <20040407125406.209FC39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> Message-ID: References: <20040407125406.209FC39834A@ws5-1.us4.outblaze.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 984 Lines: 26 On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Mohamed Aslan wrote: > i wanna to rewrite a version of linux kernel from scratch in assembly > for intel 386+ fo speed and a libc also in assembly for speed > what do u think guys > -- I have a version of libc that has a lot of code written in assembly. All of the Linux interface, all the string stuff, etc. You can have a copy, if you want. That is a start. This will be a big project. There's a lot more to the Linux kernel than just creating some I/O capability. Linux has to emulate Unix so it's a lot more work than rolling your own 32-bit OS with a file-system. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.24 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/