From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263657AbUC3N7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:59:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263663AbUC3N7k (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:59:40 -0500 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:18368 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263657AbUC3N7i (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Mar 2004 08:59:38 -0500 Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 17:36:06 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andi Kleen Cc: Ivan Godard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel support for peer-to-peer protection models... Message-ID: <20040329153606.GA3084@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <048e01c413b3_3c3cae60_fc82c23f@pc21.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <07b501c41502_48bd4d20_fc82c23f@pc21> <20040329011416.591ad315.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040329011416.591ad315.ak@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > Overall it sounds like your architecture is not very well suited to > > > run Linux. > > > > We believe we can adopt the Linux protection model (i.e. the 386 protection > > model) with no more work than any other port to a new architectire (ahem). > > Just FYI - Linux has been ported to several architectures with similar SASOS > capabilities in hardware (IA64 or ppc64 on iseries) and they have all opted to use > an conventional protection model. > It might be actually plus for Ivan: if ia64 and ppc64 benefit from changes for mill, it makes them more acceptable. -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms