Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:46:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:46:35 -0400 Received: from adsl-63-194-239-202.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net ([63.194.239.202]:55542 "EHLO mmp-linux.matchmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 6 Oct 2001 18:46:21 -0400 Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 15:46:46 -0700 From: Mike Fedyk To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: low-latency patches Message-ID: <20011006154646.D2625@mikef-linux.matchmail.com> Mail-Followup-To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20011006010519.A749@draal.physics.wisc.edu> <1002407812.1915.21.camel@phantasy> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1002407812.1915.21.camel@phantasy> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Oct 06, 2001 at 06:36:49PM -0400, Robert Love wrote: > On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 02:05, Bob McElrath wrote: > > 3) Is there a possibility that either of these will make it to non-x86 > > platforms? (for me: alpha) The second patch looks like it would > > straightforwardly work on any arch, but the config.in for it is only in > > arch/i386. Robert Love's patches would need some arch-specific asm... > > Andrew's patch should work fine on all platforms, although I think the > configure statement is in the processor section so you will need to move > it to arch/alpha/config.in > > The preemption patch has a small amount of arch-independent code but we > are working on supporting all architectures. 2.5... > If you decide to provide support for PPC32 I'd be happy to test it on top of a benh or bitkeeper kernel tree. Mike - 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/