did not publish it yet, but we have what could be called a nix mark II, comes with a new mount table and a fossil speaking 9pix, plus a new scheduler.
It does not have al the stuff like graphics in the modified mark I nix you have, but, the new stuff should be easy to use on it. give us a bit more time and we will put the new bits somewhere. hth On May 25, 2013, at 5:02 PM, erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: > On Sat May 25 09:59:39 EDT 2013, kh...@intma.in wrote: >> On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 09:47:05AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: >>> >>> why don't we just let the 386 kernel rest in peace and use >>> 64-bit for sse? >> >> Let's all go buy new computers instead of using the ones we have? > > x86_64 has been around since 2003, and on nearly every x86 machine for > the last 8 years. sse2 has been around since 2001. there is not a large > percentage of currently-running x86 machines that have sse2 but do not have > x64-bit extensions, and this percentage is generally decreasing. > > i put sse2 in the 386 kernel a few years ago, before the compilers supported > it. this was to support a linuxemu project. the linux tools needed sse. > > however, when it came to putting sse2 into a general kernel—and that > includes answering questions cinap is posing, like how do we deal with > different abis in the debugger, etc.—it seemed more disruption than it > was worth. now that the 64-bit kernel is real, and supports even low-end > hardware like atom, i would rather concentrate on making > the 64-bit kernel better. > > - erik
