From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 08:09:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707210809.38450.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0707210151020.29129@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
> > It's not really the same platform: one is PC hardware going back forever
> > with zillions of bugs, the other is modern PC platforms which much less
> > bugs and quirks
>
> hehe, I'm seeing a bunch of bugs and quirks appear. It's just that
> x86_64 isn't as old as i386 to have as many of them. But give it time.
It will always fundamentally always have less bugs and quirks than i386 because
it's much younger. Modern x86 is significantly different than traditional x86
and in the old days hardware wasn't really tested for the now modern interfaces,
so they tended to have a lot of bugs and quirks.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-21 6:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-20 22:32 [RFC, Announce] Unified x86 architecture, arch/x86 Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-20 22:38 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-20 22:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-20 22:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-07-20 22:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-07-21 2:56 ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-20 23:55 ` Alan Cox
2007-07-21 0:02 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-07-21 22:26 ` Oleg Verych
2007-07-20 23:01 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-20 23:23 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-07-21 2:39 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-20 23:55 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-07-21 0:03 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-21 0:16 ` Michal Piotrowski
2007-07-21 5:40 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 5:50 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-07-21 6:06 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 7:35 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-21 7:42 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 8:01 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-21 8:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-21 8:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-27 10:50 ` Pavel Machek
2007-07-27 18:11 ` Chris Wright
2007-07-20 23:55 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-07-21 1:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-07-21 1:01 ` Gabriel C
2007-07-21 5:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 5:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2007-07-21 6:09 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-07-21 8:15 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-21 8:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-21 13:28 ` Glauber de Oliveira Costa
2007-07-21 9:02 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-21 11:34 ` Brian Gerst
2007-07-21 12:30 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-07-21 15:11 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-21 6:37 ` Avi Kivity
2007-07-21 10:37 ` David Woodhouse
2007-07-21 10:56 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-07-21 22:25 ` Matt Mackall
2007-07-21 23:51 ` Chris Wright
2007-07-22 7:50 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-07-22 12:02 ` Matt Mackall
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