On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 04:02:26PM +0200, Daniel Janzon wrote:
> Are there any reasons UML will not be able to run on for instance ARM
> platforms?
Nope.
> I see in arch/um that there is some processor-dependent code
> for x86 and ppc. Is this code strictly needed in order to run UML? Or is
> only for added performance?
A bunch of architecture-specific stuff shows through the system call
interface, and the arch/um/sys-* (and related headers) exist to
abstract that stuff away from the rest of UML. So, you will need to
implement the relevant stuff for ARM if you want UML/arm.
Jeff
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