From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 23:26:17 -0500 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? In-Reply-To: <0f1fee4b1152f4a6e32e0dd8c5c11acd@quanstro.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 261a15ee-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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