From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:37:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FBDC0A4.7080605@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0311202316500.13351-100000@home.osdl.org>
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> (I agree, the fact that the x86 paging hardware makes 1/2/3 be equivalent
> makes it an even _less_ useful abstraction, but I think it is a mistake to
> think that it would be any more useful even if the page tables wasted
> precious bits on unnecessary level information).
>
Actually, the paging hardware makes 0/1/2 equivalent; some *other*
primitives make 1/2/3 equivalent...
>
> Multi-ring was a failure. Let it go. The only reason it is making
> something of a comeback (Palladium-whatever-it-is-called-today) has no
> good technical reasons, and is purely about other things.
>
No doubt. However, I wish they would have at least taken the few useful
thing they had in the i286 botch, like the RPL, and made them available
to the paging system. That way i386 would have had "access this as from
user space" like most architectures have.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-21 7:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 3:11 Announce: ndiswrapper Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-20 3:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-20 3:34 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 12:05 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-11-21 17:25 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 17:30 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-21 17:43 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-11-21 17:48 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 17:50 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2003-11-20 4:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 4:16 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 4:35 ` Neil Brown
2003-11-20 4:49 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 4:57 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-11-20 5:05 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 6:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-20 5:27 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 5:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-20 5:36 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 4:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 4:59 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 5:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 5:27 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-24 15:40 ` Rik van Riel
2003-11-20 12:41 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-11-20 13:04 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-11-20 20:24 ` Pasi Kärkkäinen
2003-11-20 5:11 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-11-20 9:56 ` Ingo Oeser
2003-11-20 13:15 ` Ralph Metzler
2003-11-20 6:52 ` Matt Mackall
2003-11-20 7:40 ` Nick Piggin
2003-11-20 10:13 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-11-20 10:17 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 22:47 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-20 22:59 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 23:26 ` Oliver Hunt
2003-11-20 23:32 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-20 13:19 ` Gene Heskett
2003-11-20 23:15 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-20 5:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-20 5:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 6:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-20 17:27 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-20 23:57 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-11-21 0:03 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-20 16:47 ` Jason Lunz
2003-11-20 17:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-20 17:24 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-20 17:48 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-20 18:03 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-11-20 23:01 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-21 5:48 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-11-21 7:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-21 7:37 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2003-11-21 7:47 ` Nuno Silva
2003-11-21 7:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-11-20 10:55 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-20 17:22 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-20 23:04 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-20 23:45 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 17:08 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-11-23 23:13 ` Jan Rychter
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[not found] ` <TPHV.1vf.1@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <TQXu.420.11@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-11-21 2:53 ` Andrew Miklas
2003-11-21 10:33 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-11-20 23:53 Mudama, Eric
2003-11-21 0:00 ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-11-21 1:01 ` Bob McElrath
2003-11-24 17:42 ` Pavel Machek
2003-11-21 7:58 ` Jan De Luyck
2003-11-21 8:59 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-11-18 11:02 Pontus Fuchs
2003-11-18 12:51 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-11-18 13:26 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-18 13:37 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-11-18 13:49 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-18 14:02 ` Arjan van de Ven
2003-11-18 13:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-11-18 14:14 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-18 14:49 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2003-11-18 15:31 ` Maciej Zenczykowski
2003-11-18 14:19 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-11-18 14:31 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-11-18 22:22 ` Pavel Machek
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