From: Rob Wilkens <robw@optonline.net>
To: Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
Linux kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company)
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2003 09:42:46 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1042382565.848.11.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301112346450.2270-100000@bailey.scraps.org>
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 02:47, Chuck Wolber wrote:
> > > As per buggy hardware, the software should _not_ have to support it.
> > > The software should report that the hardware has a bug and stop.
> > > Otherwise, you wind up writing really bad code for other hardware at
> > > the same time that you're trying to work with one particular piece of
> > > bad hardware.
>
> Good point! It's time we stopped supporting those Intel processors...
Ignorring the well popularized floating point bug in the pentium, to
which there was a bug, are there many other bugs you run accross in the
pentium while kernel programming?
-Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-12 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 70+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-10 15:29 Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Larry Sendlosky
2003-01-11 1:58 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 2:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-11 2:13 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 2:17 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-11 2:38 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 2:41 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-11 2:46 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 21:44 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-11 21:53 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 22:16 ` Chief Gadgeteer
2003-01-11 22:26 ` Kurt Garloff
2003-01-11 23:23 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 3:33 ` Mark Mielke
2003-01-12 3:43 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 4:19 ` David Schwartz
2003-01-13 13:51 ` Richard B. Johnson
2003-01-12 4:00 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-12 4:04 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 7:47 ` Chuck Wolber
2003-01-12 14:42 ` Rob Wilkens [this message]
2003-01-12 16:45 ` Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) Alan Cox
2003-01-12 16:58 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 17:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-01-12 19:30 ` Intel And Kenrel Programming Samuli Suonpaa
2003-01-12 19:46 ` Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-01-11 22:36 ` Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Vojtech Pavlik
2003-01-11 22:57 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 1:06 ` The GPL, the kernel, and everything else Ryan Anderson
2003-01-12 4:15 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 4:21 ` David Lang
2003-01-12 4:55 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 5:10 ` David Lang
2003-01-12 5:45 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 5:12 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-01-16 16:28 ` Mark H. Wood
2003-01-16 16:41 ` venom
2003-01-16 18:22 ` John Alvord
2003-01-12 11:13 ` Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Andrew McGregor
2003-01-12 1:44 ` [OT] Noise on lkml (was Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently") J Sloan
2003-01-12 3:18 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-12 4:08 ` Scott Murray
2003-01-11 3:26 ` Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Alan Cox
2003-01-11 2:54 ` Larry McVoy
2003-01-11 2:58 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 3:11 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-01-11 3:14 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 3:16 ` John Adams
2003-01-11 3:35 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 3:48 ` Hans Sgier
2003-01-11 3:55 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 4:41 ` J Sloan
2003-01-11 4:44 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 5:09 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-11 5:12 ` OT: Renaming the kernel??!?!?!? (Was Re: Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently") Brian Davids
2003-01-11 15:57 ` Nvidia and its choice to read the GPL "differently" Tom Sightler
2003-01-11 3:27 ` Brian Tinsley
[not found] ` <1042256385.1259.106.camel@RobsPC.RobertWilkens.com>
2003-01-11 4:16 ` Brian Tinsley
2003-01-11 3:52 ` yodaiken
2003-01-11 4:05 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 5:45 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-01-11 6:01 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-01-11 15:03 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 19:41 ` Andre Hedrick
2003-01-11 21:18 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 6:32 ` Ryan Anderson
2003-01-11 2:55 ` Rob Wilkens
2003-01-11 3:20 ` Tom Sightler
2003-01-11 19:48 ` Mark Mielke
[not found] <Pine.LNX.4.44.0301131852100.9994-100000@localhost.localdomain>
2003-01-14 9:39 ` Intel And Kenrel Programming (was: Nvidia is a great company) Tigran Aivazian
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