Re: Emphasizing on the unimportant ;-)

Richard Guenther (zxmpm11@student.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 27 May 1997 13:02:20 +0200 (METDST)


On Sat, 24 May 1997, Aaron Tiensivu wrote:

> Couple things I hope for future 2.1.x releases:
> (this is just stuff that I know is out there, but I think
> really should be stuck in the standard kernel soon)
>
> New sound drivers (the new beta, etc, etc)
With the latest AWE-Driver (0.3.3e)

> Pentium memcpy (makes huge difference on my machine)
But only as compile-time option as this one gives me SIG 11's under
heavy load... *bad* !

> K5/K6/Cyrix cpu support (for cpuinfo and other goodies)
> binfmt-misc
I _have_ to second this, as I wrote this...
(sent this to Linus twice, will try a third time, soon ;-) )
Look at
http://www.anatom.uni-tuebingen.de/~richi/linux/binfmt_misc.html
for more information (and yes it's very useful)!

> NTFS support
> Joliet CD-ROM support

Richard.