On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 12:49:28AM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello Okuji and Richard! > > May I ask you to have a look at the attached email and especially the url > referenced in there, <http://www.cslab.ntua.gr/~ananos/proposal.html>? > This application makes a rather profound impression to me. > > Feel free to directly reply to <bug-hurd@gnu.org>, of course.
I like this proposal but I also have a question : did you consider BSD drivers ? I understand you have experience with Linux drivers, and this is a very good reason to work on a glue code for them, but from what I could see (at least this was true with earlier version of Linux), there were device drivers tightly related to some kernel internals (the example I have in mind is some drivers directly accessing mem_map, which could not be emulated in a glue code). BSD has common roots with Mach, which may make BSD drivers integration simpler. For example, the VM and waiting/locking primitives are quite similar. I wouldn't mind if you simply answer you want to work on Linux drivers. Learning yet another OS may be too much work... -- Richard Braun
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