Will SMITH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Fabrice FACORAT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) writes:
> I've just read an announcement about a new version of the vma merging patch.
> So my question is : do you plan to include it in the kernel ?
> Does it need further tests ?
> A mozilla speed improvement is something very interesting. And I think that
> others apps are concerned.
> http://lwn.net/2001/0823/a/vma-merging.php3
i looked at this, this is a bit too late actually to merge this kind
of feature in the kernel.
> I notice that RH provide several kernel version optimise for i386, i486,
> i586, i686, athlon, etc ...
> So my question is : do you think that it may be easily implement by the
> Mandrake team ?
it should be 'doable', but not for this distrib.
> and last but not least, do you think it may de useful/interesting ?
> To much work after to debug the kernel ? (pb that appear only for a precise
> optimisation of the kernel )
i don't understand your question, can you rephrase ?
> and really the last one, if it's done, do you think it is possible to
> automaticaly install the right kernel version during the install (athlon for
> athlon, 686 por PIII/PIV, etc ...) ? ( maybe Pixel will have to modify DrakX
> ? if there's an easy way to detect it)
yes that possible but we have others things to do for the release
(like fixing bugs instead of implementing features).
