X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4e41f5c20705162050s350a390em42e8658a44f23837@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 21:50:15 -0600 From: "Morgan Gangwere" <0 DOT fractalus AT gmail DOT com> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: DualCores and Current Cygwin problems In-Reply-To: <20070517033818.GA22068@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4e41f5c20705162032j3af3534am90ba31e1cf2bf71e AT mail DOT gmail DOT com> <20070517033818 DOT GA22068 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 5/16/07, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:32:10PM -0600, Morgan Gangwere wrote: > >one of them (for Intel Mac processors with Dual Cores in some stores) > >there was a driver that would not allow Cygwin to talk to the device > >like UNIX does because it did not have "Hyperviser" mode access - > >special access to let the software kernel run on the CPU directly... > >(listen to "security now - Blue Pill" for more info) - x86 normal > >systems are fine with the system at current because they do not allow > >for Hypervisor. > > Cygwin is a standard Windows DLL which uses Windows APIs to emulate > linux. The words "talk to the device like UNIX does" do not make sense > in that context. > > cgf > > -- > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > i must be confused then - i can talk to /dev/hda2 like it was a real UNIX device -- am i wrong is saying that we do attempt to use windows as a proxy for the real hardware? -- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/