Xen will definitely not work at the moment because there are features it depends on that are not implemented, including keeping track of and enforcing the current privilege level, faults, and a few other things. These things are certainly -possible- to support, but the implementation isn't there yet. It's always dangerous to try to guess how long developing software will take, but I think it's safe to say there is a substantial but not prohibitive amount of work left. I would very tentatively say 6 months to a year.
Gabe nathan binkert wrote: > There are first some legal issues that I'm working on to get HP to > release the x86 code (since it was mostly developed at HP). It's not > clear how long that will take. The answer from the lawyers could be > no in which case it will take a while to argue, but I'm hopeful that > we'll have a positive answer in a small number of weeks. As for Xen, > that more or less requires full-system support and Gabe is a better > person to comment on that part. > > Nate > > On Jan 24, 2008 4:32 PM, Rick Strong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Does anyone have an idea of how long it will be till x86 support is good >> enough to run something like Xen. I haven't tried running any x86 >> applications on M5 and was wondering if anyone has a good idea of when >> it might good to dive into .... >> >> -Rick >> _______________________________________________ >> m5-users mailing list >> m5-users@m5sim.org >> http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > m5-users mailing list > m5-users@m5sim.org > http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users > _______________________________________________ m5-users mailing list m5-users@m5sim.org http://m5sim.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/m5-users
