[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] i686 requirements
> Regarding XEN requirements to run, I'd like to know if there is any > important reason to require i686-class cpus (ie: ppro, p2, etc.. and > k7...). In my limited understanding of 386 arch, ppro added > conditional moves and PAE, perhaps even huge-pages (have to check this > one). Is XEN explicitely (as in, used directly on assembler code) > using any of these? The current Xen code needs 4MB pages (PSE) support. There was a patch posted a while back to avoid this constraint, but I don't think it was fully working. We'd be very happy to incorporate a patch that adds support for CPUs without PSE, providing it didn't impact the normal code too much (i.e. didn't make it less readable). > My motivation is getting XEN to run on my (aging) k6 server machine. Chopping a tiny pie into quarters doesn't make it a bigger pie :-) Ian ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well, almost....http://www.thinkgeek.com/sfshirt _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xen-devel
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