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Re: [XenPPC] PPC32

To: Alex Van Brunt <alexvb@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [XenPPC] PPC32
From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:48:56 -0500
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On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 14:59 -0700, Alex Van Brunt wrote:
> Has anyone done any work on porting Xen to a 32 bit PPC processor? Does 
> anyone have an idea what would be required to do a port?

Xen depends on the hardware extensions found in server-class PowerPC.
None of those chips are 32-bit, so essentially we're talking about a
rewrite to move to 32-bit. Since 32-bit PowerPC don't have hardware
support for hypervisors, you'd need to emulate a lot in software (which
must be the approach taken by Integrity Padded Cell).

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