Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:06:07 -0800 (PST) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: Linux/IA-64 byte order, Small snippit from |
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Hello All, I have to chime in here . Most of this is snipped away & only a comment from Linus is kept . It directly concerns sparclinux .
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On 9 Mar 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote: ...snip... (Large) > > And that's also why we should work hard at giving users as much freedom > ass we can. On the UltraSparc, this means the ability to run old SunOS > 32-bit binaries: because people still use them, and in many cases it > doesn't actually give them anything to upgrade. Yup, I agree with this but where did it go ? I am aware that one can hack a few places in the kernel to get it back . But it isn't(last I heard) implemented in a standard kernel . I and several others(I am sure) would like to see this back in the kernel again. IF it is , My profound apologies .
> You obviously DO have to balance all of these kinds of decisions with > other issues: > - how clean it is to implement > - what is performance like > - what are the implications for the kernel in the long run
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