[Xen-devel] Re: [RFC PATCH] Run the Mini-OS application in its own thread.

["Jacob Gorm Hansen" <jacobg@xxxxxxx>]

On 08 Jun 2006 07:20:26 -0400, John D. Ramsdell <ramsdell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Some Xen developers have questioned why one would ever need to run a
> Mini-OS application before thread scheduling is enabled.  I can see no
> reason to do it.  If no one else can, I suggest each an application be
> a thread function that is started in kernel.c.
I can, when writing a boot-loader there is no need for multiple
threads, so I would like the option of not having to start (and clean
up after) any.

Perhaps the last part of start_kernel() could be moved to a weak
function, that people like me can override?

Regards,
Jacob

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