From: Justus Winter <4win...@informatik.uni-hamburg.de>
Currently, GNU Mach uses trap gates on i386 which are known to be slow
compared to modern alternatives like SYSENTER/SYSEXIT from Intel or
SYSCALL/SYSRET from AMD. To make use of these instructions, we need
to detect at runtime whether the C
Olaf Buddenhagen writes:
> The FSF doesn't actually require assignments for gnumach -- almost all
> of gnumach is foreign code without FSF copyright anyway...
Thank you. I had assumed that the old Mach code was
grandfathered in, and that the FSF would require copyright
assignments for any new a
On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:52:38PM +0200, Olaf Buddenhagen wrote:
> I'm a bit confused here: my understanding was that you essentially
> wanted to implement a "single system instance" cluster. I would have
> thought that would imply only a single instance of most servers --
> including auth -- rath
