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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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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