Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:36:53 -0600 (MDT) | From | Teunis Peters <> | Subject | Re: Kernel cpu selection + other platforms? |
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On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Pieter Nagel wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > So with Intel, we have to make a kernel which will run with anything, then > > rebuild the sources to take advantage of the platform's latest CPU > > advances. > > An option is to identify critical functions, like the scheduler or > memory management, which stand to win most by processor-specific > optimizations, and build a handfull of architecture-dependent > variants of each.
Yes, but what if it's I/O related (eg. removal/addition of I/O delay)... That affects the entire I/O system - all hardware devices. This is a real example FWIW. That's why I vote the kernel-config add support for sub-cpu's [I'd also like to see a menuconfig on other platforms - how DO you set that up?] [and how difficult's cross-compiling for, say, Alpha?]
Wind to your wings! - Teunis
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