[Info-vax] Real time performance, was: Re: VSI: "Official 8.4-1H1 Launch"

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

JF Mezei skrev den 2015-06-08 07:00:
> On 15-06-07 23:47, Robert A. Brooks wrote:
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>> It's not as clear-cut as you think . . .
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> Seemed clear to me (and I am not kmowm to understand things quickly)
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> I asked how the engineers get the initial code tested, some x86
> emulators, running it on x86 servers etc.
>
> The asnwer I got was that they would be doing it (the early boot
> sequences) on a VM (the KVM discussion ensued).

I read it as that they would *also* use the KVM environment and
the KVM tools in the porting process. But not exclusively.

I don't know how well this KVM emulates the real hardware.
If it is exaclty the same system image that boots on both
real hardvare and the KVM envionment, and so on.

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> I don't know why there is so much discussion.

*You* should know, it's mainly your discussion. :-)

> If the answer was clear to
> me, it should have been extremely clear to everyone else.
>

You usualy just make up the parts you didn't understand.
For those that do understand it was clear that the picture
is way more complex then what you seems to think.