From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: "Grover, Andrew" <andrew.grover@intel.com>,
"'Rik van Riel'" <riel@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Samium Gromoff'" <_deepfire@mail.ru>
Subject: Re: lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:48:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010912004818.A10240@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDE0E2@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDE0E2@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>; from Grover, Andrew on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:52:17PM -0700
Hi!
> Here's Linux:
>
> Drivers (SMP agnostic)
> Kernel (SMP/UP specific)
>
> Here's Windows:
>
> Drivers (SMP agnostic)
> Kernel (SMP agnostic)
> HAL (SMP/UP specific, contains locking primitive funcs etc.)
>
> So they use the same kernel and just switch out the HAL.
-> overhead.
If you don't care about overhead, just run SMP kernels even on UP.
Pavel
--
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-12 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-04 21:52 lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress Grover, Andrew
2001-09-05 1:51 ` David S. Miller
2001-09-05 8:03 ` Helge Hafting
2001-09-05 14:26 ` Horst von Brand
2001-09-11 22:48 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2001-09-05 21:18 Grover, Andrew
2001-09-05 22:11 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-05 22:13 ` Tim Hockin
2001-09-01 14:55 Samium Gromoff
2001-09-01 12:03 ` Peter Wächtler
2001-09-01 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-01 14:10 ` Rik van Riel
2001-08-31 21:49 Grover, Andrew
2001-08-31 22:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2001-08-31 22:50 ` Alan Cox
2001-09-01 15:50 ` Jamie Lokier
2001-09-08 17:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-09-08 18:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
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