On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 14:29 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > > On 08.07.2009, at 13:10, Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > wrote: > > > On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 10:28 +0200, Alexander Graf wrote: > > > >> What about userspace applications that use dcbz? > > > > That's generally the killer... but then, MOL was only ever implemented > > on ppc32 so we never had the problem. > > > >> But to run Mac OS X we first have to fix quite a lot of qemu stuff > >> anyways ;-). It might also make sense to only run osx in PPC32 mode, > >> as the PPC64 one doesn't add that much value. > > > > Yeah :-) We can pick stuff from MOL if we want to though, as it was > > all > > GPL. > > Thinking about it again, why did MOL never get upstream? :) No real need to. We had a few tweaks in the kernel to make it happy but it was a moving target for a while, and so it was felt easier to keep the MOL kernel module and userspace together in a separate package. Cheers, Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm-ppc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
