[pypy-commit] stmgc c7: Mention other OSes

arigo noreply at buildbot.pypy.org
Sun Feb 9 10:26:26 CET 2014


Author: Armin Rigo <arigo at tunes.org>
Branch: c7
Changeset: r711:c6989ce5e182
Date: 2014-02-09 10:26 +0100
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/stmgc/changeset/c6989ce5e182/

Log:	Mention other OSes

diff --git a/c7/README.txt b/c7/README.txt
--- a/c7/README.txt
+++ b/c7/README.txt
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
 memory, which gives a zero-cost way to share data at different
 addresses.
 
+NOTE: this functionality is only available on Linux.  There are
+potential ideas for other OSes, like a Windows device driver that would
+tweak the OS' page tables.  But it would need serious research to know
+if it is feasible.
+
 
 Memory organization
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