From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@alpha.home.local>,
akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, alan@redhat.com,
vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua
Subject: Re: i486 emu in mainline?
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 17:14:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040523211402.GB24714@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40B0C0C7.9090604@pobox.com>
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:18:31AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > - There are people (like Alan) who think that this should not go into
> > mainline because this is a distro problem and nothing else. He says
> > that only i386 packages should be installed on an i386 machine. He's
> > perfectly right about this. I found it interesting for people like
>
>
> I disagree.
>
> I want to add "old Alpha" emulation code, so that older Alphas can run
> binaries built on the newer alphas.
Well it always depends on the platform. cmov emulation isnt useful because
i686 gcc generates too many for it to be of value. For alpha it depends
on the commonness of the emulated instructions and the emulation cost.
Either way it is a user space problem in almost all situations. See
http://www-sop.inria.fr/geometrica/team/Sylvain.Pion/progs/mmx-emu/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-23 21:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-22 23:40 i486 emu in mainline? Christoph Hellwig
2004-05-23 0:20 ` Rene Rebe
2004-05-23 7:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 8:44 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 9:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 9:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 9:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-05-23 11:49 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-23 9:20 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-23 17:11 ` Brian Gerst
2004-05-24 2:47 ` Herbert Xu
2004-05-27 21:03 ` Pavel Machek
2004-05-23 8:29 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 11:08 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-23 11:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-23 13:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-24 15:17 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-24 17:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-05-25 9:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-05-25 13:48 ` Alan Cox
[not found] ` <20040523105130.GA588@samarkand.rivenstone.net>
2004-05-23 11:59 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-05-24 9:08 ` P
2004-05-23 15:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-23 21:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-05-24 12:28 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2004-05-25 17:21 ` Kronos
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2004-05-25 17:03 Albert Cahalan
2004-05-25 22:43 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-10 20:33 Nathanael Nerode
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