From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-ID: <20001124221338.13975.qmail@g.bio.cse.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Crazy idea... or a new project? 
In-Reply-To: Message from "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com> 
   of "Thu, 23 Nov 2000 19:41:29 EST." <20001124004132.72D0C199E9@mail.cse.psu.edu> 
From: Scott Schwartz <schwartz@bio.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:13:38 -0500
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| Sure we could have
| (and perhaps should have) loadable device drivers,
| but that is a solution to a problem that shouldn't exist.

Just to digress for a moment, I've never liked the idea of loadable
device drivers, because they seeem like such a stopgap measure.  Either a
real microkernel (ala QNX) or a conventional but pagable kernel would
address the space issue in a (IMHO) cleaner way.  Having the window
system allocate memory from unpageable ram bothers me in a similar way.

I'm sure rob's thought about these issues more than I, so I look forward
to being set straight on the topic. :-)