UML Merged Into 2.5.34 , VxD's
Steven Edwards
Steven_Ed4153 at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 14 15:45:10 CDT 2002
Ilja Kamps wrote:
>On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:43:08PM -0400, Thomas Wickline wrote:
>
>
>>I see UML made it into the 2.5.34 kernel
>>
>>http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>From what I get VxD drivers try to get hold of your pci bus and a ton
>>of other stuff .
>>Could this be the start to a fix down the road when it comes to .vxd
>>support ?
>>Will this help when it comes to a Wine Kernel Module ?
>>
>>
>
>Well, it is a bit useless to wine as it is basicly doing the same as wine
>(loading a kernel with its own memory managment and everything in Linux
>without PC virtualization), and the idea of a wine kernel module is still
>insane imho, I mean there wouldn't be any real advantagem, unless you go
>the way ReactOS took.
>
>
A Wineserver Kernel mod could still have a few pluses as you could
reduce overhead of threading and context switching. I'm still no big fan
of Wineserver but moving parts of it to a kernel module would be nice.
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