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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com,
	virtualization@lists.osdl.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: The virtuailization patches break Voyager.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 09:24:46 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1fy6kfrnl.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704281137.52460.ak@suse.de> (Andi Kleen's message of "Sat, 28 Apr 2007 11:37:52 +0200")

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On Saturday 28 April 2007 11:15:33 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Scary thought. But I don't see why people using embedded x86s should suddenly
> design new interrupt controllers etc. - after all the main value of using x86s
> embedded is some degree of compatibility to PC software.  Ok, we'll see what
> happens.

Right but visws main difference was that it did not run a x86 BIOS
as I recall.  My memory says all of it's hardware was standard.

>> So I think it makes a lot of sense to see if we can fold mach-visws
>> and mach-voyager into appropriate pluggable interfaces.
>
> For voyager and NUMAQ i think it's fine to just wait until the last machine dies
> (James, how many do you have left? @] iirc the number of NUMAQs still in
> operation
> is also slowly decreasing) 

Maybe.  Again if we could convert them along with everything else to
a modern structure it probably would not matter.

I honestly think it is irresponsible to keep code in tree and not at least
try to keep it working.

Eric

  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-28 15:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28  6:40 The virtuailization patches break Voyager Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28  6:59 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28  7:25   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28  7:52     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28  8:32       ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28  8:52         ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28  9:34         ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 16:05           ` James Bottomley
2007-04-28 17:15             ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28  8:42       ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28  9:13         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28  9:15           ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28  9:39           ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28  9:48             ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-04-28  9:15         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28  9:37           ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 15:24             ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2007-04-28 16:08             ` James Bottomley
2007-04-28 15:54         ` James Bottomley
2007-04-28 17:15           ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 16:40       ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-28 17:00         ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28 17:07           ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-04-28 15:47 ` James Bottomley
2007-04-28 16:02   ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28 16:18     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28 16:20     ` James Bottomley
2007-04-28 17:23       ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-28 17:22   ` Andi Kleen

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