Re: [9fans] Plan 9 on L4

[Patrick Kelly <kameo76890@gmail.com>]

On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

>> I might be having a hard time with the Japanese, but my impression
>> is that
>> the plan 9 processes are now also L4 userspace servers.  This makes
>> me think
>> they're not running a paravirtualized Plan 9 on L4, but put L4 INTO
>> Plan 9.
>
> The paper I found online said they're currently implementing plan9
> as a single server and eventually plan to split it off into multiple
> servers.  Either way, the plan 9 services sit on top of L4. I still
> dont understand why they necessarily have to be built with the same
> toolchain that builds the L4 kernel itself.  Even if its embedded
> into the kernel as a root server, shouldn't it be possible to compile
> it separately and embed the resulting binary?
possible but you would have to look at the code to see exacly whats
going on
>
> fwiw I haven't peekd at the code.
>> Dave
>
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