On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 09:01:32PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> [1] I actually have a Samsung wireless card, but it's not working
> due to missing support for the Cirrus 6729 PCMCIA bridge on there.
I was wondering, because Samsungs cards should be supported by
the HostAP driver (which remind me, HostAP needs to go in the kernel).
> > One of the main strength of OpenSource is that you can
> > recompile for your platform, and I think we should fully exploit this
> > advantage, especially for the base system. Otherwise, why not enable
> > 16bit compatibility on i386 for ELKS packages ?
>
> I maintain the 32bit emulation on x86-64 and booting an unmodified 32bit
> distribution
> is an important test case for me. Your suggestion is like someone suggesting
> to you to just use ethernet with cables instead of this unreliable wireless
> stuff...
This analogy doesn't work. If your network is wireless, you
won't connect to it with an Ethernet card (and vice versa). A fully 64
bits userspace has only very minor downside, and most users won't see
any difference. If we follow your line of thought, we should all be
using a 16bit userspace on i386 (more compact, more compatible).
> > It seems that the BK->Web stuff has not yet picked your
> > updates, because I don't see them (and of course the snapshot on
> > kernel.org is too old).
>
> It's actually there, just hidden in a large batch of network updates.
It was backlogged, it seems to be catching up (but I need to
see if I find it).
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/ChangeSet@-4d?nav=index.html
> -Andi
Jean
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