From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] /sys/src/^(9 boot)^/pc/memory.c Message-ID: <20020918070252.C6063@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Russ Cox on Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:49:03AM -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 07:02:52 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: ee1dc92a-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Wed, Sep 18, 2002 at 12:49:03AM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > > we already have loadable kernel modules. > they are called user-level file servers. Agreed. But they have to straddle the user-kernel context, at a price - Microsoft tried to keep graphics out the kernel, with well known results (NT 3.51). Being able to add kernel-level file servers would be an interesting proposition, although I would have trouble understanding the concept :-) ++L