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Re: ColdFire was Re: [buildd] Etch?



On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 12:15:30PM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Aug 2006, Aur?lien G?R?ME wrote:
> 
> > > > BTW, I believed the idea was to emulate in kernel space the missing
> > > > opcodes from legacy m68k on CF to avoid whatever modifications on
> > > > the m68k legacy port or to limit them.
> > > 
> > > I hope you realize, that this contradicts your first statement.
> > 
> > Uh? Emulating only some opcodes in the CF kernel is not like a bloated
> > virtual machine in user space, is it?
> 
> This was in reference to your statement about the nonexisting perfomance
> hit.

What I meant is it is better to have less performance on CF instead
to have less performance on legacy m68k. The emulation would only
take place on CF kernels, not on legacy m68k kernels.

Cheers,
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