Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264329AbTKUHwK (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:52:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264330AbTKUHwK (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:52:10 -0500 Received: from fw.osdl.org ([65.172.181.6]:42666 "EHLO mail.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264329AbTKUHwI (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Nov 2003 02:52:08 -0500 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:51:36 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Nuno Silva cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Subject: Re: Announce: ndiswrapper In-Reply-To: <3FBDC30E.2090200@vgertech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 22 On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Nuno Silva wrote: > > The good people at Cambridge made a (very nice) VMM that exploits > ring0/1/3 to let one machine run various kernels independently (the > kernels need to be ported to the xen arch). This is what I alluded to a few lines later - saying that if you move the driver down to ring1, then you should move _everything_ down to ring1 and just leave a microkernel at ring0. Now, I'm not big on microkernels, but a pure virtual machine abstraction is at least not the distateful academic mental masturbation that we saw in the 80's. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/