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Re: XEN...if ever?



On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 07:02:41AM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 16:35 +0200, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> Irrelevant. That's a detail of nobody taking the time to fix the bug.
> The mecanism used by MOL would work for something like Xen which was my
> point.

Well, i said currently :)

And yes, you are right, MOL should be the perfect tool for this kind of
things, but sadly nobody has taken the time to get the MOL drivers working
with 2.6 kernels. Should htis be something which could be integrated in the
mainline kernels even ? 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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