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[User-mode-linux-devel] Re: VM modules in kernel? (fwd)
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From: William S. <wst...@po...> - 2000-03-24 19:19:00
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From the Linux-kernel mailing list... Cheers, - Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------------- We're upping our productivity with Linux - so up yours! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- William Stearns (wst...@po...). Mason, Buildkernel, named2hosts, and ipfwadm2ipchains are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns LinuxMonth; articles for Linux Enthusiasts! http://www.linuxmonth.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:40:48 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Cox <al...@lx...> To: mh...@me... Cc: Linux Kernel mailing list <lin...@vg...> Subject: Re: VM modules in kernel? > I was thinking that faster VM speeds may be possible if the > kernel can be tweaked more freely due to the GPL nature of the > Plex86/bochs projects now. Remember something here. IBM tuned the hardware to this, and to an extent they tuned the software on top of VM. They have a lot of cards to play that Motorola m68K chips did but x86 does not. Im hoping transmeta can manage to add a virtualised 386 mode to their chip. Here's hoping they are listening ;) In the Linux case we have another weapon (other than fear suprise and the cuddly penguin) which is that we don't give two hoots[1] if the kernel running on the hypervisor is not a normal x86 kernel. If it provides the APIs and it runs x86 user space its fine. Consider the user mode kernel as a more interesting starting point. Alan [1] Arguably we don't give one hoot or even a ho[2] either [2] half a hoot - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to maj...@vg... Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ |