Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:48:18 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress |
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Hi!
> Here's Linux: > > Drivers (SMP agnostic) > Kernel (SMP/UP specific) > > Here's Windows: > > Drivers (SMP agnostic) > Kernel (SMP agnostic) > HAL (SMP/UP specific, contains locking primitive funcs etc.) > > So they use the same kernel and just switch out the HAL.
-> overhead.
If you don't care about overhead, just run SMP kernels even on UP. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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