Hi, On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:24:04PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > I'm thinking that IF user-mode-linux could be ported to Mach, Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 13 Dec 2006 19:50:21 +0100, a écrit : > Funny :-). Some weeks ago I also got the idea about porting user-mode > Linux to GNU/Hurd. (But didn't start with it yet.)
Aow sorry, I understood the converse. > As I undestand it, user-mode Linux is a ``normal'' user-space program and > as such it wouldn't be ported to Mach, but to our user-space environment. Yes. And I'd say it shouldn't be too hard, since Mach also reserves 0x0-0xc0000000 for userland. > > it MIGHT be possible to modify it in order to use some of linux's > > drivers in user-space. > > I can't approve or negate that, but I don't think that Linux's user-mode > Linux can run (hardware) device drivers inside such an instance. User-mode-linux is not supposed to run device drivers. Now, as you said, some development are still possible, but it's probably not a long-term solution. > > Could something like this work? I know there are many serious if's > > involved here and it is very likely i have some major flaw in my > > reasoning, so please share your thoughts. > > It would be worth a try. An essential thing I saw when I browsed through > the urls was to be able to do system call interception. I do not (yet) > know if that is possible in our system. This will probably require some little modification in Mach, yes. Samuel _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
