From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 05:38:30 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86cbf24a4179c5189cc22e8d6a6373d5@quanstro.net> (raw)
sorry for the stupid question. i didn't mean to step in that.
- erik
On Wed Mar 29 22:28:01 CST 2006, jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> On Wed Mar 29 20:52:09 EST 2006, quanstro@quanstro.net wrote:
> > do you have some pointers to papers from these guys?
> >
> > from my uneducated position, it seems to me that plan9 has a large
> > percentage of what microkernels claim. one thing one can't
> > do is write a hardware driver that lives in userspace. one advantage
> > of this could be the ability to load drivers depending on configuration.
> >
> > has anybody invested some brain cells in this?
> >
> > - erik
>
> yes, brain cells have been burned on that and it has been done.
> but we're waiting for uriel's replacement for 9load before the
> details are finalised. after all, we don't want to waste our time
> doing something that's already been done but just not released.
>
> --jim
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-30 11:38 erik quanstrom [this message]
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2006-03-28 18:15 [9fans] new compilers Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:15 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 16:49 ` [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 18:04 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 18:45 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-03-29 19:41 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-29 23:27 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 0:38 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:29 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:40 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:55 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:13 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-30 4:26 ` jmk
2006-03-30 16:08 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 16:02 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 18:14 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 12:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 13:43 ` Richard Miller
2006-03-30 13:49 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-29 18:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-29 18:58 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 23:16 ` lucio
2006-03-30 2:00 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-30 5:06 ` lucio
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