From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:01:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:01:02 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:63758 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:00:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3A6356E4.4B5CFE01@transmeta.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 12:00:36 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Albert D. Cahalan" CC: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Dunlap Randy , "'H. Peter Anvin'" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: The latest instance in the A20 farce In-Reply-To: <200101151930.f0FJUTC254802@saturn.cs.uml.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > It looks like we let Microsoft fill the design guide void. > If you were to write "PC DESIGN GUIDE - For the Linux Operating > System" and a pile of test code, then there would be an > alternative to point people at. > > Complaining is pretty useless. I was thinking about this today. If we write a Linux design guide, even as a delta spec, does anyone think it will be listed to? -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/