On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> I'm still not completly happy - it's a somewhat hackish solution. I'm
> thinking about a special file which can be mmaped into the process address
> space and contains processor specific optimized code. This also has other
> uses. One that comes to my mind are trampolines. Right now we have to
> make a syscall to flush the cache. But on the RM7000 some cacheflush
> operations are available in userspace. I'm sure we can come up with more
> uses.
I don't actually think this is needed. All I worry about are inline
functions. They must be fast and work on anything equal or better then
the host they were built for. Normal functions are not a problem -- they
may be converted to wrappers that call various backends indirectly.
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