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Subject: RE: Installing kernel 2.4
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 18:25:03 -0800 
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There's been a bunch of related work done at the Oregon Graduate Institute
by Calton Pu and others.  See
http://www.cse.ogi.edu/DISC/projects/synthetix/publications.html for a list
of papers.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: davej@suse.de [mailto:davej@suse.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 3:25 PM
> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
> Cc: jmerkey@timpanogas.org
> Subject: Re: Installing kernel 2.4
> 
> 
> 
> > There are tests for all this in the feature flags for intel and
> > non-intel CPUs like AMD -- including MTRR settings.  All of 
> this could
> > be dynamic.  Here's some code that does this, and it's similiar to
> > NetWare.  It detexts CPU type, feature flags, special instructions,
> > etc.  All of this on x86 could be dynamically detected.
> 
> Detecting the CPU isn't the issue (we already do all this), 
> it's what to
> do when you've figured out what the CPU is. Show me code that can
> dynamically adjust the alignment of the routines/variables/structs
> dependant upon cacheline size.
> 
> regards,
> 
> Davej.
> 
> -- 
> | Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>  http://www.suse.de/~davej
> | SuSE Labs
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