On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 19:39, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> 
> Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> > If Adeos gets spaces like Space, then it would be interesting.
> > Otherwise I don't think it is possible, because we need to protect guest
> > OSes against eachother.
> 
> You don't need to do that if each OS is stable and doesn't behave
> randomly, which we assume is a fine description of Linux. As long
> as the PCI probe is modified to only reveal the devices the OS
> instance is supposed to see, then all other hardware should be
> out of reach.

I agree for the purposes of running a disco-like setup on a large MP
machine.

Our purpose with nomadbios is to make operating systems a kind of mobile
agents, so they cannot be trusted and we need MMU protection. If Grids
are to over happen then I think something like this is needed.

Best,
Jacob



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