Re: Hot pluggable CPUs ( was Linux 2.5 / 2.6 TODO (preliminary) )

From: David L. Nicol (david@kasey.umkc.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2000 - 02:17:00 EST


James Sutherland wrote:

> The kernel itself would be harder, of course. Kernel modules could do
> something similar - just unload the old one and reload the new one, taking
> care to avoid anything trying to use the module in the mean time - leaving
> just the core code - memory management etc., which would be much more
> difficult.

RTlinux if I am not mistaken takes the stance that the whole linux business
is a low-priority real time process. I don't know how the rtlinux project
has been keeping up with kernel development. But there's a partitioning
system for you, if the RT microkernel (or whatever it is) is running
RT processes and one linux kernel, it could run two.

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                          David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu
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