On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 12:17:40PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > Jarek Poplawski wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 02:44:51PM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > >... > > > >>The point is that we _trust_ intel when they says "this will work". > >>Therefore, we can use the optimizations. It was never about > >>legal matters. If we didn't trust intel, then we couldn't > >>use their processors at all. > >> > > > >But there was nothing about trust. Usually you don't trust somebody > >but somebody's opinions. The problem is there was no valid opinion, > >or this opinion has been changed now (no reason to not trust yet...). > > > "Trusting people or their opinions" is only about use of the > english language, and not that intersting to bring up here. > Surely you know that lots of people here have english as > a secondary language only. Intersting for me to know, but > probably not for everybody else.
Of curse, I know this problem: sometimes it's very hard to make people believe it's my secondary language! But this time I didn't see any language problem. I simply poined out that sometimes trusting could be not enough - not necessarily in this case. > >>We couldn't take the chance before. It was not documented > >>to work, verification by testing would not be trivial at all for > >>this case. > >>Linux is about "stability first, then performance". > >>Now we _know_ that we can have this optimization without > >>compromising stability. Nobody knew before! > >> > > > >So, you think this would be the first or the least credibly > >verified undocumented feature used in linux? Then, it seems > >I can try to install this linux on my laptop at last! (... > >And, I can trust you, it will not break anything...?) > > > I never claimed that linux will work on your laptop, so no: > You can't take my word for that, because I never gave it! > It is well known that some laptops don't work with linux, > I have no idea if yours will work, I don't even know what kind it is. OK, this was supposed to be a joke... (Btw, can you remember burning linux laptops?) I thought this "stability first" a bit funny, but this was a really bad joke, sorry. Thanks for these additional explanations - you are completely right! Regards, Jarek P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/