Re: A proposal - binary

[Alan Cox]

Ar Iau, 2006-08-03 am 15:31 -0700, ysgrifennodd Zachary Amsden:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > Could have fooled me. It seems to work for the IBM Mainframe people
> > really well. 
>Yes, but not because of source compatibility.  It works because the 
> hypervisor layer is actually architected in the hardware.

The hardware has nothing to do with it. It works because the hypervisor
API has a spec and is maintained compatibly. Its not entirely hardware
architected either, it has chunks of interfaces that are not present
hardware level or not meaningful at that level - the paging assists for
example are purely a hypervisor interface as are hipersockets.

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/