From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-lkm@lina.inka.de>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences?
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 20:47:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030726004753.GA32585@rdlg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059177773.1204.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>
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Too bad you don't have anything they gave you or which they took back
from you that could be used against them.
Thus spake Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk):
> On Sad, 2003-07-26 at 00:29, Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> > In article <20030725142434.GS32585@rdlg.net> you wrote:
> > > With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality
> > > we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable
> > > 2.2 kernel.
> >
> > it is easier to turn off SMP.
> >
> > BTW: what will happen if there is some SMP code from IBM in the kernel which
> > is owned by SCO? Isnt it a matter of days to remove that code? Does anybody
> > have to pay for past usage of the code?
>
> The core 2.2 SMP code is stuff I wrote. Caldera (aka SCO) even provided
> me the hardware and asked me to do it. The later table parser code is
> from Intel.
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-26 0:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-25 14:24 2.4 -> 2.2 differences? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-25 18:08 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-25 22:34 ` jw schultz
2003-07-25 23:29 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26 0:02 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-26 0:47 ` Robert L. Harris [this message]
2003-07-26 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-26 22:49 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-26 15:25 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-07-28 15:00 ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-31 19:32 ` Andrew Scott
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