Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Hardwired drivers are going away? | Date | 14 Jan 2002 16:40:12 -0800 |
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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.
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