Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Michael Meissner) | Subject | Re: Possible kernel optimization | Date | 13 Dec 1996 11:51:06 -0500 |
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In article <Pine.LNX.3.95.961213143755.649A-100000@pc5829.hil.siemens.at> Ingo Molnar <mingo@pc5829.hil.siemens.at> writes:
| heh :) when i first read the ELF standard i came up with the very same | idea ... then i was told that this idea is almost as old as Linux itself, | and that it comes up regularly on linux-kernel, but nobody has done it so | far.
I would venture to guess that it is older than Linux. I first ran across it in 1975-1979 when I went to college and hacked on CDC 6[46]00 systems, where it was common to put the init code in the area you would use as buffers. I imagine that it is much older than that. -- Michael Meissner, Cygnus Support (East Coast) 4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA meissner@cygnus.com, 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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