Re: Announce: ndiswrapper

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Nov 21 2003 - 02:38:01 EST


Linus Torvalds wrote:

(I agree, the fact that the x86 paging hardware makes 1/2/3 be equivalent makes it an even _less_ useful abstraction, but I think it is a mistake to think that it would be any more useful even if the page tables wasted precious bits on unnecessary level information).
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Actually, the paging hardware makes 0/1/2 equivalent; some *other* primitives make 1/2/3 equivalent...


Multi-ring was a failure. Let it go. The only reason it is making
something of a comeback (Palladium-whatever-it-is-called-today) has no
good technical reasons, and is purely about other things.


No doubt. However, I wish they would have at least taken the few useful thing they had in the i286 botch, like the RPL, and made them available to the paging system. That way i386 would have had "access this as from user space" like most architectures have.

-hpa

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