On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:34:42PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 10:02 +0200, Gabriel Paubert wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:22:40PM +1000, Aaron Kerr wrote: > > > I really some of this porting effort produces something that is G4 > > > friendly. > > > > First avoid posting in Hideous Trash Makeup Language, thanks. > > > > Second, there is no hope of making Xen work on the existing > > G4. The hypervisor support is equivalent to a third privilege > > level in the processor. The G4 only has two privilege levels, > > and I can't think of an efficient way of emulating a third > > level (you'd have to run the OS in user mode). > > Well... MOL does it pretty well :) It's more difficult but technically > possible > without too much performance loss.
Still, it is currently impossible to run a linux 2.6 kernel on top of MOL. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
