Messages in this thread | | | From | David Lang <> | Date | Thu, 6 Jul 2000 17:27:12 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux |
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Jim, every platform has the option of useing a serial console.
I suspect that the i386 video cards and drivers are the worst offenders however.
David Lang
On 6 Jul 2000, James H. Cloos Jr. wrote:
> Date: 06 Jul 2000 18:06:32 -0500 > From: James H. Cloos Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com> > To: torvalds@transmeta.com > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu > Subject: Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux > > >>>>> "Linus" == Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> writes: > > Linus> The answer is really simple: if you want low latencies, don't > Linus> use fbcon. (Or, if you want to, fix it). End of story. This > Linus> is not a "Linux problem" - it's a "don't do that then" problem. > > Just to play devil's advocate (daemon's advocate?:) :: > > What about platforms where fbcon is the only con? > > Or is the fbcon-induced latency an i386-specific problem? > > -JimC > -- > James H. Cloos, Jr. <http://jhcloos.com/public_key> 1024D/ED7DAEA6 > <cloos@jhcloos.com> E9E9 F828 61A4 6EA9 0F2B 63E7 997A 9F17 ED7D AEA6 > Is this post worth two cents? Then goto <http://2cw.org/23>! > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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