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| author | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2010-09-01 00:07:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> | 2010-09-01 00:07:55 +0200 |
| commit | 4df8e9bc53ebc996fc9140474391e2abd77ddf6b (patch) | |
| tree | 8533e4ab91506eb971b8b3a5d1db10c26695dfd3 | |
| parent | a9c50f471cbb84dfaf00eb76b97cdceeb972fa77 (diff) | |
Explain how expensive it is to switch microkernel
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn | 15 |
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diff --git a/hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn b/hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..468fab54 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!meta title="How difficult would it be to switch to another microkernel?"]] + +One thing for sure is to rewrite the mach and sysdeps/mach parts of glibc and +libpthread. Quite a few tools also assume a Mach kernel and would have to be +rewritten. |