From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Redesign of kernel graphics interface Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:33:11 +0100 Sender: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <1084217590.24759.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Errors-To: mesa3d-dev-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: James Simmons Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Nicolas Souchu , Jon Smirl , DRI Devel , mesa3d-dev , fb-devel On Llu, 2004-05-10 at 17:14, James Simmons wrote: > Speaking of bloat in the kernel. When will the crypto and TCP/IP stack be > moved to userspace. The networking code alone is over 17 megs in size. Not on my box. Nothing like it. Although to answer that question with a definitive example ELKS (a Linux like 8086 kernel in 64K) has IP demux in kernel space and tcp in user space. The v7 NCP stack also had much of the protocol in user space. So its a perfectly valid argument to build such hybrid systems for display management too ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3