Fedora Ring 0 definition

Miroslav Suchy msuchy at redhat.com
Tue Sep 15 06:40:17 UTC 2015


Dne 14.9.2015 v 23:10 Brendan Conoboy napsal(a):
>> /Then/ we could start thinking about /truly minimal/ concepts,
>> perhaps  “container minimal” = “the minimal set needed to start and
>> run an executable dependent on Fedora ABI” (e.g. kernel version
>> requirement +glibc+locale data+Python 3 interpreter+…, useful for
>> building containers), “VM minimal” could be “the minimal contents of a
>> VM needed to start and run…” (e.g. kernel
>> implementation+init+container minimal, useful for single-app VM), “CLI
>> minimal”, …
>>      Mirek
> 
> Right, so I don't think minimal is the end goal, I think the OS (not the
> distribution) is the end goal- minimal is presumably a subset of the OS.

And how we call this "truly minimal concept"? Ring -1?

I would like to have those Rings zero based, where zero is absolute
minimum to run. Somewhere. Not necessary on bare metal.
The whole "OS" can be Ring 1. There is still plenty of numbers remaining.

Mirek


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