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SubjectRe: linux-kernel-digest V1 #4011
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  >>From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
>>Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:31:37 -0700
>>Subject: Re: Linux address mapping
>>...
>>I'm sure there is good reason why Tru64 does not use the
>>reference implementation PAL code Linux does :-)

Yes, but it's not an interesting performance reason. It has more to
do with keeping licensed software on licensed boxes and incidentally
with sparing Linux the baggage of PAL calls it wouldn't use.

Off topic: I really admire your perverse mastery of the SPARC branch
delay slot, Dave. Or is it your mastery of the perverse branch delay
slot?

\Joe [jmartin@segsrv.hlo.dec.com Joseph A. Martin
Compaq Computer Corporation
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