Re: [U4X-Developer] Compiled Notes for Vision

[Mike B. <nit...@sl...>]

Paul Mundt wrote:
>         2) We could go the uber-fascist route (no, not the FSF way)
>            and look into doing a really small microkernel with nothing
>            but the bare necessities.
>         3) We could bring up the second system in a VM and interface
>            with it as much as possible.

What I was thinking is that we could use both the microkernel and VM
ideas in one, and make a micro-OS, kinda like what exists on some (all?)
main frames, and load the different OS's in different VM's, and then
save each VM state to disk on a vision type partition or something... 
That way, the OS only has to be booted once, and then vision will
interface with the micro-OS to request a swap of the VM.  This also
gives us the advantage that system booting will be nearly instantaneous,
except when an OS requires a restart.  In that case, the Vision micro-OS
would intercept the OS's reboot request, and just restart the VM in a
manner safe for Vision.



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