Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: i586 kernel optimizations? | Date | Sat, 1 Jun 1996 00:39:16 -2300 (BST) |
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> I was curious as to why Rober L Krawitz's memcpy patches for the i586 had > not been implemented into the kernel?? I run pre2.0.8 with the patch, and
Because we are trying to knock the last bugs out not featurize them just at the moment. After 2.0 I'd like to see his patches in.
> Also, does anyone know of any other good patches to increase performance that > haven't been implemented into the kernel over the 1.3 series?? I have an old
Building with the pentium gcc (the proper 2.7.2 one) is a big help looking at its output. It doesnt quite generate correct code always yet according to the docs so I've not booted this kernel ;)
Alan
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