Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 26 Jul 2003 17:25:03 +0200 (MEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences? |
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On 26 Jul 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 00:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <20030725142434.GS32585@rdlg.net> you wrote: > > > With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality > > > we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable > > > 2.2 kernel. > > > > it is easier to turn off SMP. > > > > BTW: what will happen if there is some SMP code from IBM in the kernel which > > is owned by SCO? Isnt it a matter of days to remove that code? Does anybody > > have to pay for past usage of the code? > > The core 2.2 SMP code is stuff I wrote. Caldera (aka SCO) even provided > me the hardware and asked me to do it. The later table parser code is > from Intel.
Did you open up the boxes? Perhaps there was some license note attached to the internals (`by using this machine, you declare to give up your first born etc... ')?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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