Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: SMP-Linux | | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | | Date | 20 Feb 2003 18:39:01 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 17:16, James Buchanan wrote:
> Yes, a HAL, very much, but not really a VM, only a very thin layer of > architecture-nuturalness. Very thin. The trickery I have learnt from > the NetBSD project is that it has some very clever glue code below > this HAL. I suppose to maintain acceptable performance levels. Then > again the goals of NetBSD and Linux are different in some respects, > Linux likes raw speed and was originally only for the x86 and NetBSD > likes portability above that. > > So I suppose my experiment will never really take off, but could have > some interesting results!
Well... how do you think linux actually works ? Did you bother _reading_ the code before proposing to do something that is basically already there ? :)
Ben (happily running SMP on PowerPC architecture).
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