Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[grimmer@xxxxxxx (Lenz Grimmer)]

Hi,

On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Michael Lankton wrote:

> I am curious, is a linux that doesn't use the linux kernel still really
> linux?  I confess to not knowing much about mklinux, I'd better go read
> about it some more.

This is what I read about it:
mklinux still runs a regular linux kernel above the mach kernel.
The linux kernel has been modified in such a way, that it does not access
the hardware directly, it all goes through the mach kernel before. The
linux kernel runs as a so called "personality" of the mach kernel,
whatever that means... 

This sounds to me, that mklinux should be able to run on any platform,
that can run a mach kernel. Quite interesting, but I may be wrong on this
point.

LenZ

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