Anders Johansson wrote:
On Wednesday 28 January 2009 03:18:31 Basil Chupin wrote:
I take your point, but the question has to be asked is why was paravirtualisation removed from the kernel? Is this removal then also to be implemented in the general Linux kernel or is this only a Novell kernel specific "fiddle"?
That question doesn't make any sense.
Of course it doesn't make sense - because of my (incorrect) use of the word "removed". Earlier posts spoke about "disabled". Therefore I should have used "disabled" rather than "removed". So the question then becomes whether this disablement is something only applicable in oS/SLE or is this disablement meant to apply to the kernel irrespective of distros it's used in? If the answer is only with Novell kernels then the problem is not with nVidia but with the (Novell) kernel; but if the disablement will apply in all "versions", so to speak, of the kernel then nVidia will have to amend its code to account for the disablement of paravirtualisation (which is basically what I tried to state in an earlier post).
The "general linux kernel" is a source distribution, and what you're talking about is a compile flag, deciding what goes into the binary package
paravirtualisation wasn't removed, it was just disabled at compile time
Why is anyone running KOTD for anything other than testing anyway?
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