From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:45:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:45:15 -0400 Received: from cisco7500-mainGW.gts.cz ([194.213.32.131]:25092 "EHLO bug.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:45:04 -0400 Message-ID: <20010912004818.A10240@bug.ucw.cz> Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 00:48:18 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Grover, Andrew" , "'Rik van Riel'" Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'Samium Gromoff'" <_deepfire@mail.ru> Subject: Re: lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDE0E2@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <4148FEAAD879D311AC5700A0C969E89006CDE0E2@orsmsx35.jf.intel.com>; from Grover, Andrew on Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:52:17PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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