From: Helge Hafting <helgehaf@aitel.hist.no>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The well-factored 386
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:14:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030729111423.GA5320@hh.idb.hist.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030728194127.GA10673@mail.jlokier.co.uk>
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 08:41:27PM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> I didn't realise he was talking about an x86 emulator. I thought he
> was analyzing real hardware.
>
> The one thing that made it on-topic for me was his quiet suggestion
> that "forreal" mode interrupts are faster, and that it might, perhaps,
> be possible to modify a Linux kernel to run in that mode - to take
> advantage of the faster interrupts.
That would have to be a kernel for very special use. The "forreal"
mode has protection turned off. As far as I know, that
means any user process can take over the cpu as if
it was running in kernel mode.
Perhaps useful for some embedded use with only a couple well-tested
processes running. Still, a programming error could overwrite
kernel memory instead of segfaulting.
Helge Hafting
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-29 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-28 16:02 The well-factored 386 Jack Dennon
2003-07-28 16:32 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-28 16:46 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-07-28 16:55 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-28 19:31 ` Herbert Pötzl
2003-07-28 19:41 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-29 11:14 ` Helge Hafting [this message]
2003-07-29 16:19 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-07-30 7:11 ` Helge Hafting
2003-07-30 14:05 ` Jamie Lokier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-29 12:59 John Bradford
2003-07-29 13:32 ` Ville Herva
2003-07-28 8:44 The Well-Factored 386 Rick A. Hohensee
2003-07-28 14:06 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-28 16:36 ` hp
2003-07-28 20:33 ` Rick A. Hohensee
2003-07-28 20:33 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-28 22:27 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-07-28 22:30 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-28 22:58 ` David D. Hagood
2003-07-29 14:32 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-29 17:21 ` hp
2003-07-29 0:34 ` jw schultz
2003-07-29 1:27 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 3:49 ` Larry McVoy
2003-07-29 4:25 ` Gene Heskett
2003-07-29 4:42 ` jw schultz
2003-07-29 12:04 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-29 14:55 ` Timothy Miller
2003-07-29 8:45 ` hp
2003-07-28 23:11 ` viro
2003-07-29 0:17 ` Brian Raiter
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