Re: [Xen-devel] Deletion of 2.4 Linux sparse tree

[Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 6 Oct 2005, at 00:56, James Harper wrote:

> This is a vague wishlist item for me, but what would it take to 
> backport
> the xen patches to the linux kernel to 2.0 or 2.2?
>
> I ask because I have a client with an ancient SCO application that has
> some historic data in it and it might just work under linux with iBCS,
> which has long since disappeared.
>
> Failing that, how will a kernel in a VMX domain see hardware? Would the
> kernel need specific device drivers?
>
> Would a Linux dom0 and a SCO domU cause a matter-antimatter-like
> explosion? :)
Backporting to 2.0/2.2 would not be a simple task. You'd have to run 
them unmodified in a vmx domain, once that code has stabilised some 
more.
 -- Keir


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