On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On 9 Mar 1999, Jes Sorensen wrote:
...snip... (Large)
>
> And that's also why we should work hard at giving users as much freedom
> ass we can. On the UltraSparc, this means the ability to run old SunOS
> 32-bit binaries: because people still use them, and in many cases it
> doesn't actually give them anything to upgrade.
Yup, I agree with this but where did it go ?
I am aware that one can hack a few places in the kernel
to get it back . But it isn't(last I heard) implemented
in a standard kernel . I and several others(I am sure)
would like to see this back in the kernel again.
IF it is , My profound apologies .
> You obviously DO have to balance all of these kinds of decisions with
> other issues:
> - how clean it is to implement
> - what is performance like
> - what are the implications for the kernel in the long run
Tia, JimL
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