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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:51:37 +1100
From: Sam Watkins <sam@nipl.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 05:43:35PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> I don't know how hideously complicated it would be, to implement a module
> interface that would support loading linux modules into whatever other OS
> such as Plan 9.

also perhaps it would be possible to run modules in userland, again drivers
needing access to direct memory-mapped devices and not doing that through the
kernel might be a problem.