From: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
To: Kendall Bennett <KendallB@scitechsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT?
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:23:01 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <417682D5.2020803@grupopie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <416E8322.25700.29ACC2F1@localhost>
Kendall Bennett wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> wrote:
>
>
>>"Kendall Bennett" <KendallB@scitechsoft.com> writes:
>>
>>>So what do you guys think?
>>
>>How big is the module with emulator etc.?
>
>
> About 150K compiled on x86 (before linking so that has symbol information
> etc in it).
I searched for the code in the scitech FTP server... If this code is
similar to the one found under "../obsolete/.." then it seems that the
code is somewhat optimized for speed, whereas for video initialization
we probably could rework it to be optimized for code size.
If the complete interpreter could fit in 64k (or something like that)
then the chances of it getting into the kernel would be probably higher
and could solve a lot of problems.
This is a problem I find somewhat interesting, and would be willing to
give it some of my spare time...
--
Paulo Marques - www.grupopie.com
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
P.S. Aren't there other uses for a in-kernel x86 interpreter?
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2004-10-14 20:03 ` Generic VESA framebuffer driver and Video card BOOT? Andi Kleen
2004-10-14 20:46 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 12:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:41 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 20:19 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-15 22:22 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:02 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:09 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-20 15:23 ` Paulo Marques [this message]
2004-10-20 17:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-21 4:03 Yu, Luming
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2004-10-15 14:22 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-15 14:33 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 18:20 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 18:39 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-15 22:27 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 23:34 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-16 1:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-10-21 11:59 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-18 11:44 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-18 19:43 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-19 17:01 ` Martin Waitz
2004-10-19 17:54 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 15:37 ` Gerd Knorr
2004-10-16 0:55 ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-16 12:21 ` Gerd Knorr
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2004-10-14 19:02 Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 13:48 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 18:36 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-15 21:44 ` Helge Hafting
2004-10-15 22:12 ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-16 17:44 ` Jon Smirl
2004-10-19 21:00 ` Pavel Machek
2004-10-19 21:11 ` Pavel Machek
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