Messages in this thread |  | | From | Keith Owens <> | Subject | Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List | Date | Thu, 12 Oct 2000 11:26:50 +1100 |
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On Thu, 12 Oct 2000 02:20:15 +0200, Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com> wrote: >> argued that critical routines should always be compiled with -i386, >> unfortunately that includes all of printk and all console handling >> (both serial and screen), not really an option. > >Neither printk nor console handling should be too performance >critical, and the performance of console i/o is probably not limited >by processor speed, so compiling them for i386 should not make a big >difference. >(Note that this is a guess - I did no benchmarks!)
AFAICT, compiling console I/O for -i386 means that all of serial.o must be compiled with -i386. People with high speed serial links will not thank you for that.
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