From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1244855047.9958.1844.camel@work> References: <60cf86dc7be89e51858edfd85a801166@9netics.com> <1244855047.9958.1844.camel@work> Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 07:36:30 -0700 Message-ID: <3e1162e60906130736t7685b7a6u961dacc0dad89121@mail.gmail.com> From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=000e0cd485c838df7b046c3bc090 Subject: Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0a334f2c-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --000e0cd485c838df7b046c3bc090 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Having looked into this a bit, it appears to be more like 9vx than QEMU (uses segmenting capabilities), that is, unless I've forgotten how 9vx is set up. I believe some X11 stuff also uses segment registers, as well as TLS on Linux. I "get it". Especially that they're shooting for Native Arm. It' be cool on mobiles for sure. On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:04 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik wrote: > On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:04 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > > anyone working on this? > > What's so great about NaCl? Isn't it just a fancy way to start > QEmu/VirtualBox/VMWare? > > Thanks, > Roman. > > > --000e0cd485c838df7b046c3bc090 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Having looked into this a bit, it appears to be more like 9vx than QEMU =A0= (uses segmenting capabilities), that is, unless I've forgotten how 9vx = is set up.

I believe some X11 stuff also uses segment re= gisters, as well as TLS on Linux.

I "get=A0it".=A0Especially=A0that=A0they'= re=A0shooting=A0for=A0Native=A0Arm.=A0=A0It'=A0be=A0cool=A0on=A0mobiles= =A0for=A0sure.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 6:= 04 PM, Roman V Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:04 -0700, Skip Tav= akkolian wrote:
> anyone working on this?

What's so great about NaCl? Isn't it just a fancy way to start
QEmu/VirtualBox/VMWare?

Thanks,
Roman.



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