Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 16:14:27 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301231611520.73084-100000@root.org> In-Reply-To: <p05200f11ba562b901b75@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Someone recently added an 'SMP' file to sys/i386/conf, which just > includes GENERIC, changes the 'ident' and then turns on the SMP > and APIC_IO options. Perhaps we should add a VMWARE one, with an > eye towards building a "vmware-appropriate" kernel that would be > available on the install CD's? Or to fix this longer term, provide a way at run-time for a kernel to provide different code for the same purpose. Linux did this for the syscall (int 0x80 vs. syscall) instructions. I could see it being done for locking low-level operations as well. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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