From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Yuhong Bao <yuhongbao_386@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Happy birthday Linus!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:49:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3BBCDC.5010806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0912301226070.11961@localhost.localdomain>
On 12/30/2009 10:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes, I did. In fact, I bought one purely for Linux development, so that I
> could test the code to do i387 error handling (which is non-trivial,
> because an IBM PC/AT hooks up the i387 in a non-standard way - not the way
> Intel designed it directly to the CPU, but instead through the interrupt
> controller)
>
Or rather, Intel designed it in a non-standard way, different from the
way IBM implemented it later.
--
I have a truly marvellous patch that fixes the bug which this
signature is too narrow to contain.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-30 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-29 2:41 Happy birthday Linus! Yuhong Bao
2009-12-29 5:13 ` Vikram Dhillon
2009-12-30 20:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-12-30 20:49 ` Avi Kivity [this message]
2009-12-31 0:08 ` Yuhong Bao
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-12-28 7:54 [PATCH-2.6.0-tiny] "uninline" {lock,release}_sock Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-12-28 8:23 ` Linus Torvalds
2003-12-28 9:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-12-28 18:42 ` Matt Mackall
2003-12-28 19:06 ` Happy Birthday Linus !!! mjt
2003-12-28 19:14 ` Johan Sjoholm
2003-12-28 19:16 ` Matt Richards
2003-12-28 19:40 ` Thomas Zehetbauer
2003-12-28 23:34 ` Jay Yost
2003-12-29 0:43 ` Andre Hedrick
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