From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:25:51 -0500 > On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 13:26 -0700, David Miller wrote: > > From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:18:39 -0500 > > > > > It would be even more interesting to implement host support on the Sparc > > > processors with hardware virtualization support. > > > > That's just a lot of protocol and userland work, rather than much > > kernel stuff. > > > > To me it's less interesting, to be honest. > > Not sure what you mean. On IBM POWER servers, the hardware's > virtualization support is only accessible to an IBM-developed hypervisor > that is packaged with the system. If you're saying Sparc is in the same > position, I agree that's not very interesting. Sun4v systems come with Sun's hypervisor. Linux simply runs on top of that, whether as a host or a guest. The hypervisor source is opensource and we could technically make changes to it, but it isn't very practical. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
