Re: [RFC] Small PCI core patch

[Avi Kivity]

Diego Calleja wrote:

> El Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:08:49 +0200,
> Avi Kivity <avi@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
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> > None of the desktop Windows installations I'm aware of exhibit this. The 
> > recent versions of Windows are fairly stable.
> >    
>
> You don't seem to check frecuently windows help forums, where some people
> speaks of nvidia as the number 1 "bluescreener"...
>
> Lots of windows drivers _are_ crappy. It's just a fact - some companies
> hire the wrong people. Some companies (like nvidia) get money from being
> fast, not from stability. This is a good example from a microsoft
> programmer about how some companies cheat the WHQL certification to
> get faster drivers...
> http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/05/84469.aspx
>
> This one about silent install of drivers by "smart" installers is fun
> too: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2005/08/16/452141.aspx
>
>  
Awsome. Certainly a very strong point against Windows drivers.

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> > Many people have hyperthreaded CPUs today.
> >    
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> Hypertreaded CPUs can't run the two virtual cpus at the same time,
>  
Actually they are parallel at the instruction level. For the purpose of 
SMP-safety they are the same as true SMP. They just have different 
performance characterestics.

> > It works well on the server, where Linux has a large and rising market 
> >    
>
> Linux didn't always have a large market share on servers. Again, history
> has shown that the path taken by linux until now is succesful.
>  
I hope you're right. But desktops are more complex, more varied, and 
have much more, er, interesting, users.

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