From: Joerg Hoh <joerg@devone.org>
To: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: user-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [uml-devel] Porting UML to other plattforms
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 23:14:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031208221400.GC3553@hydra.joerghoh.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200312082042.hB8KgmAv029431@ccure.user-mode-linux.org>
On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 03:42:48PM -0500, Jeff Dike wrote:
> joerg@devone.org said:
> > Can someone tell me, how hard is the job to port UML to other
> > plattforms than i386 (how far went the ppc port?).
>
> In principal, it shouldn't be too hard. In practice, the immature arch
> abstraction layer inside UML is a problem, but this should be improved once
> I get the x86_64 port merged.
Good News.
> More troublesome are are host-specific problems. Every architecture that UML
> has run on has exposed toolchain problems of one sort or another. Host kernel
> and hardware bugs are also somewhat common. These are what will hold up any
> new port, rather than any problems with UML itself.
How does a hardware bug affect UML? The bugs should be "fixed" by the host
kernel and therefore noone should see them (expect some very lowlevel
software and the kernel). Can you explain this point to me?
Jörg
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-06 22:45 [uml-devel] Porting UML to other plattforms Joerg Hoh
2003-12-06 23:38 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-12-08 20:42 ` Jeff Dike
2003-12-08 22:14 ` Joerg Hoh [this message]
2003-12-08 23:26 ` Jeff Dike
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