Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:52:05 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: kill -9 <pid of X> |
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On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > In message <Pine.HPP.3.91.980812151305.11627B-100000@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>, > "Jon M > . Taylor" writes: > +----- > | On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > | > In message <m0z6d1t-000aNFC@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan Cox writes: > | > | an argument against any specific setup btw - no doubt kernel code would > | > | have some upset potential too) > | > "Some"? Is wedging the console less preferable than wedging thwe entire > | > system? I know where I can get NT4 in that case :-) > | Suppose the sounds driver locks up and wedges your system that > | way. Better put in in usersapce too. After all, you aare a lot better > +--->8 > > The sound driver doesn't map and copy big chunks of memory around. More to > the point, compare the number of crashes from Alan's sound driver work to > those during fbcon development. Likewise, NT stability (granted, always an ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Which crashes have _you_ seen during fbcon development? I just checked the Linux/m68k registration database, and either you didn't register, or you weren't there when fbcon was developed (1994/1995).
I guess you're talking about the optimizations that happened lately to get better performance out of vgacon after the abstract console merge? That's something completely different.
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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