On 9/23/08, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Do you mean OpenxVM? I think Sun has not published the hypervisor part yet. -- 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
