Re: lilo vs other OS bootloaders was: FreeBSD makes progress

From: Peter Wächtler (pwaechtler@loewe-komp.de)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2001 - 07:03:10 EST


Samium Gromoff wrote:
>
> ANdreas Dilger wrote:
> > Win2K even abstracts all SMP/UP code into a module (the HAL) and loads this
> > at boot, thus using the same kernel for both.
> the only possibility of this shows how ugly is SMP in win2k...
> this is a situation where they are or geniuses or idiots.
> MS never proved to be geniuses so they still are idiots...
>

Did someone any benchmarking?
I expect the loss of performance per application a none issue.
What do you think: >0.5%?
Are you considering interrupt latency in the first place?

Then obviously BeOS is also engineered from idiots...
Oh, and QNX/RTP has separate kernels for UP/SMP. And they
don't need UP/SMP versions of "modules".
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