Re: Requesting advice on weather to use L4Linux or Wombat

On Mon Nov 06, 2006 at 18:07:25 -0800, Robert Gubler wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I am new to both L4Linux and Wombat.  I'd like to be able to run at least
>two instances of Linux on an embedded device (specifically an Xscale based
>gumstix).  Originally I was looking at Wombat; it seems to do everything I
>want.

L4Linux and Wombat are two independant implementations of a paravirtualised
Linux on top of L4.

>My understanding is that one of the lower layers underneath Wombat is L4.
>Is this not the same L4 that L4Linux is using?

There different version run on two different implementation of L4.

>It looks like L4Linux supports an Xscale processor (and a good handful other
>processor types), but the front page of the L4Linux site seems to suggest I
>should use Wombat for embedded projects.  Why?
>
>Are there advantages / disadvantages to either?

Especially on ARM, Wombat support fast addres space switching, which means context
switching is an order of magnitude faster than native Linux.

Cheers,

Benno