On Saturday 09 July 2005 12:10, Tim Warnock wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Blaisorblade [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Saturday, 9 July 2005 8:07 PM > > To: user-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net > > Cc: Tim Warnock > > Subject: Re: [uml-user] UML on non intel > > > > On Saturday 09 July 2005 06:21, Tim Warnock wrote: > > > I have a sun e250 with sparc processors, will UML run on it? > > > > Not with existing code, there were some porting projects at > > very initial > > stages, but no work is happening currently. > > > > Just for a comparison, a well-experienced full-time kernel > > hacker ported UML > > to S390 in (I think) less than six months... > > -- > > Wow! I didn't think that uml would be so complex... > > What makes it so complex that it would take that much work to do? Don't know really, and the I posted that thinking it was a short time... possibly it could be less, even because he worked on general UML first, before starting the port.
That said, Uml has subtle dependencies all over to fix, and interacts with processes in a complicate way, plus interacts with mostly undocumented host kernel details... and even to get some changes done to the host, in some cases. However, Bodo (the porter) is the best one to answer your question. -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the 'Do More With Dual!' webinar happening July 14 at 8am PDT/11am EDT. We invite you to explore the latest in dual core and dual graphics technology at this free one hour event hosted by HP, AMD, and NVIDIA. To register visit http://www.hp.com/go/dualwebinar _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
