Messages in this thread | | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Wine speedup through kernel module | Date | Fri, 08 Sep 2000 11:18:38 +0100 |
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torvalds@transmeta.com said: > We used to have the iBCS2 project, and I was actually considering > making it part of the standard kernel when it started becoming a > non-issue simply because there started to be more native Linux > programs than iBCS2 programs.
Actually, you seemed to be considering it quite seriously a few months back. I spent a week cleaning it up at your request, but then I think the mail containing the patch was sent at about the same time as you sent the mail announcing the feature freeze. As I knew the feature freeze was coming, I was quite rushed, so I didn't clean it up as much as perhaps I should have done.
There are still good reasons for including it. The PA-RISC people want HPUX emulation, which shares a lot of code with the other *NIX emulations.
I was intending to dust it off and spend a little more time cleaning it up properly when you started taking patches for 2.5.
I'd actually quite like to see support for older Linux personalities also being shifted into a configurable module along with the other emulations - there's a lot of cruft that you can safely eliminate on an embedded system where you _know_ they're never going to be running libc5 binaries.
-- dwmw2
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