MOL + MAC_OS_X + Virtual PC

Samuel Rydh mol-general@lists.maconlinux.org
Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:23:50 +0100


On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 01:20:09PM -0400, Gavin Hemphill wrote:
> No, MOL will not work with the newer versions of Virtual PC.  VPC works 
> by setting the processor into little endian mode for some things which I 
> don't think you can do from userspace in Linux.
> 	G++

Ahh... that is a nice piece of information! It is actually not
difficult to make MOL support running in little-endian mode. MOL is
not quite an ordinary userspace process...

Until now, I have never seen a use for the little-endian mode so
I just didn't bother...

/Samuel