His original Kernel, L3, was written in pure assembly for x86, using every trick possible. On 10/7/07, Francisco J Ballesteros wrote: > > That was the idea. Jochen Liedtke suggested that ukernels should not > be portable, just their interface. His ukernel was hand tuned for a > particular > hw/compiler, afaik. > > On 10/7/07, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > > > On 10/7/07, ron minnich wrote: > > > On 10/7/07, David Leimbach wrote: > > > > > > > It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago. > > > > > > > > Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels? > > > > > > > yep, I could never get them to build on red hat. My mistake, using red > > > hat, but ... long story. > > > > > > ron > > > > > > > Yep, it was pretty compiler specific back when I used it on my Power > Macs, > > and may still be if we're talking about the Pistachio implementation. > > > > Darwin was also ported to it (Darbat - > > http://www.osnews.com/story.php/15162/Darbat-0.2-Released/ > > ) also. > > > > Dave > -- "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense." "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre." "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures" -- Heraclitus