Re: The virtuailization patches break Voyager.

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Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes:

> On Saturday 28 April 2007 11:15:33 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Scary thought. But I don't see why people using embedded x86s should suddenly
> design new interrupt controllers etc. - after all the main value of using x86s
> embedded is some degree of compatibility to PC software.  Ok, we'll see what
> happens.

Right but visws main difference was that it did not run a x86 BIOS
as I recall.  My memory says all of it's hardware was standard.

>> So I think it makes a lot of sense to see if we can fold mach-visws
>> and mach-voyager into appropriate pluggable interfaces.
>
> For voyager and NUMAQ i think it's fine to just wait until the last machine dies
> (James, how many do you have left? @] iirc the number of NUMAQs still in
> operation
> is also slowly decreasing) 

Maybe.  Again if we could convert them along with everything else to
a modern structure it probably would not matter.

I honestly think it is irresponsible to keep code in tree and not at least
try to keep it working.

Eric
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