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From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de>
To: m.knoblauch@teraport.de
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-2.5.5-pre1
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 14:34:24 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hok7tgtcf3.fsf@gee.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C6BB42A.AADAA82E@TeraPort.de>
In-Reply-To: <3C6BB42A.AADAA82E@TeraPort.de> (Martin Knoblauch's message of "Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:57:14 +0100")

Martin Knoblauch <Martin.Knoblauch@TeraPort.de> writes:

>> linux-2.5.5-pre1
>> 
>> From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
>> Date: Wed Feb 13 2002 - 17:38:12 EST
>> 
>> 
>> This is a _huge_ patch, mainly because it includes three big pending
>> things: the ALSA merge (which is much smaller in the BK tree than in the
>> patch, because a lot of them are due to renames), merging most of x86_64,
>> and merging some PPC patches.
>> 
>
>  just curious :-)) Is the x86_64 stuff based/tested on real HW,
> simulators or just on the specs.

The x86-64 stuff was developed and extensivly tested - and also
demonstrated at the last show cases like LinuxWorldExpo NY ;-) - using
a software simulator.  You cannot develop such a beast just with the
specs...

For more information about Linux on x86-64, check also
http://www.x86-64.org

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
  SuSE Labs aj@suse.de
   private aj@arthur.inka.de
    http://www.suse.de/~aj

  reply	other threads:[~2002-02-14 13:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-14 12:57 linux-2.5.5-pre1 Martin Knoblauch
2002-02-14 13:34 ` Andreas Jaeger [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-02-13 23:20 linux-2.5.5-pre1 Wayne.Brown
2002-02-13 23:32 ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Robert Love
2002-02-13 23:44   ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Alessandro Suardi
2002-02-13 23:34 ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Rob Radez
2002-02-13 22:38 linux-2.5.5-pre1 Linus Torvalds
2002-02-13 23:16 ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Matthias Andree
2002-02-14  2:30   ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Jeff Garzik
2002-02-14  1:17 ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Daniel Phillips
2002-02-14  1:35   ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 -= M.J. Prinsen =-
2002-02-14  9:22     ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Allan Sandfeld
2002-02-14  5:31   ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Linus Torvalds
2002-02-14  8:04 ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 bert hubert
2002-02-14 16:23   ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Linus Torvalds
2002-02-14 16:53     ` linux-2.5.5-pre1 Thomas Capricelli

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