Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: a joint letter on low latency and Linux | Date | Mon, 03 Jul 2000 22:43:06 -0400 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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Artur Skawina <skawina@geocities.com> said:
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> No, "smart" linking of the kernel at boot time is enough to eliminate > the useless code. For example, here is what you can do: > instead of generating the spinlock code (it's an asm() anyway) you just > mark the place where it would have been used (eg by placing the address > in some .init section). Then the boottime "linker" (loader) can figure > out whether the code is necessary (based on hw detection and/or user > input) and add it. [...]
I understand going through all this pain (and extra tools for compiling a kernel, and stability problems, etc) for binary-only OSes. We have a better choice... -- Horst von Brand vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl Casilla 9G, Vin~a del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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