Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
14 Jan 2002 16:40:12 -0800

Followup to: <20020114232247.195bf441.spyro@armlinux.org>
By author: Ian Molton <spyro@armlinux.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> #2 Not all architectures have a problem with 'far' or 'near' calls, and
> frankly, I'm glad the kernels design isnt being crippled just to serve the
> fundamentally CRAP x86 architecture, for once.
>

Especially since the x86 *ISN'T* one of the architectures with this
particular problem. 'far' and 'near' as used in this thread don't
refer to the x86 segmentation crud.

-hpa

-- 
<hpa@transmeta.com> at work, <hpa@zytor.com> in private!
"Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot."
http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt	<amsp@zytor.com>
-
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/