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-The idea of using L4 was initially voiced in the Hurd community by Okuji.
-He created the l4-hurd mailing list in November 2000. It does not appear
-that he got any further than simply suggesting it as an alternative to Mach
-and doing some reading.
+The idea of using [[microkernel/L4]] as a [[microkernel]] for a
+[[Hurd_system|hurd]] was initially voiced in the [[Hurd_community|community]]
+by Okuji Yoshinori. He created the [[*l4-hurd*_mailing_list|mailinglists]] in
+November 2000. It does not appear that he got any further than simply
+suggesting it as an alternative to [[microkernel/Mach]] and doing some reading.
-[[NealWalfield]] started the original Hurd/L4 port while at Karlsruhe
-in 2002. "My intention was to adapt the Hurd to exploit L4's concepts and
-intended design patterns; it was not to simply provide a Mach
-compatibility layer on top of L4. When I left Karlsruhe, I no longer
-had access to Pistachio as I was unwilling to sign an NDA. Although
-the specification was available, the Karlsruhe group only [released
-their code in May 2003][1]. Around this time, Marcus began hacking on
-Pistachio. He created a relatively complete run-time. I didn't
-really become involved again until the second half of 2004, after I
-complete by Bachelors degree.
+[[NealWalfield]] started the original Hurd/L4 port while at Karlsruhe in 2002.
+He explains:
-Before Marcus and I considered Coyotos, we had already rejected some
-parts of the Hurd's design. The resource management problems were
-what prompted me to look at L4. Also, some of the problems with
-translators were already well-known to us. (For a more detailed
-description of the problems we have identified, see our [[Critique]] in this
-month's SIGOPS OSR. We have also written a forward-looking
-[[PositionPaper]].)
+> My intention was to adapt the Hurd to exploit L4's concepts and intended
+> [[design_pattern]]s; it was not to simply provide a Mach
+> [[compatibility_layer]] on top of L4. When I left Karlsruhe, I no longer had
+> access to [[microkernel/l4/Pistachio]] as I was unwilling to sign an NDA.
+> Although the specification was available, the Karlsruhe group only [released
+> their code in May
+> 2003](https://lists.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/pipermail/l4ka/2003-May/000345.html).
+> Around this time, Marcus began hacking on Pistachio. He created a relatively
+> complete run-time. I didn't really become involved again until the second
+> half of 2004, after I complete by Bachelors degree.
-We visited Jonathan Shapiro at Hopkins in January 2006. This resulted
-in a number of discussions, some quite influential, and not always in
-a way which aligned our position with that of Jonathan's. This was
-particularly true of a number of security issues.
+> Before Marcus and I considered [[microkernel/Coyotos]], we had already
+> rejected some parts of the Hurd's design. The resource management problems
+> were what prompted me to look at L4. Also, some of the problems with
+> [[translator]]s were already well-known to us. (For a more detailed
+> description of the problems we have identified, see our [[Critique]] in the
+> 2007 July's SIGOPS OSR. We have also written a forward-looking
+> [[Position_Paper]].)
-Hurd-NG, as we originally called it, was an attempt to articulate the
-system that we had come to envision in terms of interfaces and
-description of the system's structure. The new name was selected, if
-I recall correctly, as it clearly wasn't the Hurd nor the Hurd based
-on L4."
+> We visited Jonathan Shapiro at Hopkins in January 2006. This resulted in a
+> number of discussions, some quite influential, and not always in a way which
+> aligned our position with that of Jonathan's. This was particularly true of
+> a number of security issues.
- [1]: https://lists.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/pipermail/l4ka/2003-May/000345.html
+> Hurd-NG, as we originally called it, was an attempt to articulate the system
+> that we had come to envision in terms of interfaces and description of the
+> system's structure. The new name was selected, if I recall correctly, as it
+> clearly wasn't the Hurd nor the Hurd based on L4.