From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: what about microkernel?
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2007 09:18:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60710070918p7187dda4m9e1b738a761db419@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <05f3477826ed9392704c444db1b63212@terzarima.net>
On 10/6/07, Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net> wrote:
> > you mean, the all 9 subsystems works through 9P and filesystems,
> > that safe for kernel?
>
> the kernel doesn't actually implement all that much, and most complex things
> are outside the kernel. the biggest exceptions are networking
> and low-level device drivers, but the interface to those is small,
> or even tiny. the device drivers aren't that big either.
> the network has been in and out of the kernel at different times over the years.
>
> qnx is probably the most reasonable so-called microkernel i've seen described
> (but i haven't seen their code).
It's "open sourced" now, as of a few weeks ago.
Ever looked at the L4 family of microkernels?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-07 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-06 13:25 [9fans] " Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-06 16:07 ` Lorenzo Fernando Bivens de la Fuente
2007-10-06 16:08 ` johnny
2007-10-06 16:26 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-06 20:24 ` [9fans] " Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-06 20:50 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-07 16:18 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2007-10-07 16:30 ` ron minnich
2007-10-07 18:05 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-07 20:28 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-07 20:49 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-08 13:20 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-08 13:27 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 14:50 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-08 15:58 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 16:01 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-10-08 17:16 ` erik quanstrom
2007-10-08 19:14 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 19:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 20:18 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-10 18:26 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-10 20:42 ` ron minnich
2007-10-10 21:38 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-08 17:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2007-10-08 18:39 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-08 19:11 ` Eric Van Hensbergen
2007-10-08 18:34 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-07 16:31 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-07 18:36 ` Andrew Wingorodov
2007-10-07 18:54 ` LiteStar numnums
2007-10-07 20:20 ` David Leimbach
2007-10-13 7:08 ` Andrew Wingorodov
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