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.
You're actually pretty much right. Linux has been made to run on the HP PA-RISC boxes this way, in fact. The most popular Mach based Linux is on the PowerPC, but you can also build mklinux and run it on the Intel. The drawback is that on mklinux the additional overhead causes about a 200erformance hit in most cases. On the upside it is a pretty interesting learning experience for computer science types and in some cases could allow you to more easily run Linux on a box that Mach already supports and Linux doesn't. --Donnie -- Donnie Barnes <A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~djb"><A HREF="http://www.redhat.com/~djb</A">http://www.redhat.com/~djb</A</A>> djb@redhat.com "Bah." Challenge Diversity. Ignore People. Live Life. Use Linux. 879. My Dad used to say I have deceptive quickness. I'm slower than I look. - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e