Re: FIX: Permedia 2 driver XFree-4.0

[Brian Pomerantz <bapper piratehaven org>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 03:23:55PM -0500, Jay Estabrook wrote:
> 
> > But that means another release of GLibc, and the distribution of that
> > can take _ages_. Nice as it were, though.
> 
> No; the idea is to make new kernel system calls, that GLIBC and user
> apps can then make to get the same (and more) info that GLIBC gets
> indirectly (/proc/cpuinfo) and manages itself now. It could be done
> without GLIBC involvement initially, ie just a package in
> os-support/linux that recognizes enhanced kernels and uses info from
> there directly.
> 

This is most definitely the best way.  I'm itching to get XFree86 4.0
going on my Miata, the speedup over 3.3.6 on my Athlon at home was
well worth my time to get it working on my desktop at work.


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