From: Paul Thomas <pthomas8589@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 10:08:30 -0700 > Thanks for the response. That makes sense. It is a lot different from > ARM. Does the hypervisor handle the XAUI interfaces also? I see there > is a SUNVNET driver. Is that how the kernel accesses the network? It > all seems like a very elegant solution. Is the hypervisor under GPL > license? The SUNVNET driver is for logical domain guest, not for for Linux executing with access to PCI segments. Linux running on "real iron" uses the normal PCI drivers for whatever network hardware is available. The hypervisor only gets involved with the XAUI interfaces when you want to export portions of the NIU network device to logical domain guests from control comains. Linux has a full hardware driver for the NIU chip, drivers/net/niu.c The hypervisor is GPL'd and available from www.opensparc.org, you want the "Architecture and Performance Modeling" download that contains the full openfirmware and hypervisor sources. -- 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
