[c-nsp] IOS Modularity

[Tim Stevenson]

At 10:35 AM 8/30/2005, lists at hojmark.org observed:
> > you can restart a process, upgrade a process, protected memory
> > and more. all in IOS on 7600 platform.
>
>Apparently the current version is also IOS running on top of a
>microkernel OS, which is what brings you restartable processes
>etc. They call it ION (IOS On Nucleus).

Neutrino, not Nucleus.

>That might also explain the jump in image size from SXD to SXE.

SXE is not modularized, SXF will be the first modularized release. 
The reason SXE is so big is the additional code required to support 
the new WAN carriers (SIPs) and SPAs.

Tim


> > now it will be interesting to see if the 7200 platform will
> > have IOS-XR or these functions on IOS
>
>It's not IOX. However, I don't see why ION shouldn't come to
>the 7200 as well, but it'll probably need tons of (more) DRAM
>and flash.
>
>-A
>
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Tim Stevenson, tstevens at cisco.com
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