Bogomips Replacement

Bogomips Replacement

[Joe Barr]

 
Hi, everyone

I've just finished reading "Teach Yourself Linux Kernel Hacking In 15 Minutes" and feel like I'm ready to jump into the fray and start making contributions.  So, where to start.  I feel like that lady on TV, looking for the weakest link.

What I want to do is rip out the bogomips code and replace it with something completely different.  Does anyone know who currently maintains it?  As I recall from the Geek Bowl earlier this year in NYC, nobody really knows what that bogomips stuff does anyway. 

My idea is to add an active FUD filter to the kernel by sampling selected stories on LinuxToday and then providing a realtime bogosity rating.  Drawing on my extensive cultural training, I've decided to borrow an idea from the movie Spinal Tap.  Instead of having the meter show a bogosity reading between zero and ten, it will span from zero to MS.

Oh, one more question before I begin.  It is OK to do kernel patches in Visual RPG, isn't it?

See ya,
Joe Barr


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Re: Bogomips Replacement

[Charles Cazabon]

Joe Barr <warthawg@ecpi.com> wrote:

> What I want to do is rip out the bogomips code and replace it with something
> completely different.  Does anyone know who currently maintains it?  As I
> recall from the Geek Bowl earlier this year in NYC, nobody really knows what
> that bogomips stuff does anyway. 

The bogomips code is used to calibrate a timing loop which is used in various
drivers and other places.  Where did you get the idea that nobody knows this?

Charles
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Re: Bogomips Replacement

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joe Barr wrote:
[SNIPPED...]
> 
> Oh, one more question before I begin.  It is OK to do kernel patches in
> Visual RPG, isn't it?

No! According to the current standard, IEEE-LINUX-2001, patches must
be submitted in IBM-Selectric, triplicate, of course.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson

Penguin : Linux version 2.4.1 on an i686 machine (799.53 BogoMips).

    I was going to compile a list of innovations that could be
    attributed to Microsoft. Once I realized that Ctrl-Alt-Del
    was handled in the BIOS, I found that there aren't any.

Re: Bogomips Replacement

[Robert Love]

On 10 Jul 2001 09:41:13 -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> Joe Barr <warthawg@ecpi.com> wrote:
> 
> > What I want to do is rip out the bogomips code and replace it with something
> > completely different.  Does anyone know who currently maintains it?  As I
> > recall from the Geek Bowl earlier this year in NYC, nobody really knows what
> > that bogomips stuff does anyway. 
> 
> The bogomips code is used to calibrate a timing loop which is used in various
> drivers and other places.  Where did you get the idea that nobody knows this?

it was a joke. get it?

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Re: Bogomips Replacement

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2001, Joe Barr wrote:

> I've just finished reading "Teach Yourself Linux Kernel Hacking In 15
> Minutes" and feel like I'm ready to jump into the fray and start
> making contributions.  So, where to start.  I feel like that lady on
> TV, looking for the weakest link.

I'm afraid you have confused linux-kernel with another
mailing list:

	humorix-l@nl.linux.org

(the discussion list for the humorix postings)

Rik
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