From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <473980C6.4040009@kix.in> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:17:34 +0530 From: Anant Narayanan User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Glendix? References: <47396E4D.6020005@kix.in> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: f6d1d32e-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi, > so you might get more hardware support, but you'd lose all the userspace > code, so would it really end up that much more capable? I don't understand what "lose all the userspace code" means. The objective of the exercise is to enable Plan 9's userspace to work unmodified on Linux. It boils down to Linux's drivers/schedulers/et.al. but Plan 9's programming environment. You'd still use /net to do network programming, use libdraw and not X, so to the programmer the fact that the distribution is running the Linux kernel is not known. Performance-wise, I see how it would be a bad idea; since read/write to /net will ultimately result in a socket-like call, so there would be a overhead. -- Anant