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

From: Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz)
Date: Tue Sep 11 2001 - 17:48:18 EST

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Hi!

> Here's Linux:
>
> Drivers (SMP agnostic)
> Kernel (SMP/UP specific)
>
> Here's Windows:
>
> Drivers (SMP agnostic)
> Kernel (SMP agnostic)
> HAL (SMP/UP specific, contains locking primitive funcs etc.)
>
> So they use the same kernel and just switch out the HAL.

-> overhead.

If you don't care about overhead, just run SMP kernels even on UP.
Pavel

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