UML Merged Into 2.5.34 , VxD's

[Steven Edwards]

Ilja Kamps wrote:

>On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 12:43:08PM -0400, Thomas Wickline wrote:
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>>I see UML made it into the 2.5.34 kernel
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>>http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/
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>>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 ?
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>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.
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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.