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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-09-15 01:04:47 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2011-09-15 01:04:47 +0200 |
| commit | e4e6f8027157b14425904d67243bba241ce740f9 (patch) | |
| tree | b76f58fd6cf9cb114a275b56da3df65ad340d442 /faq | |
| parent | 32ea5e0d86a60edd27f73961122882f86ada4b4b (diff) | |
faq/system_port: Mach IPC as Linux kernel module.
Suggested by Samuel.
Diffstat (limited to 'faq')
| -rw-r--r-- | faq/system_port.mdwn | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/faq/system_port.mdwn b/faq/system_port.mdwn index eec7c917..c831c36f 100644 --- a/faq/system_port.mdwn +++ b/faq/system_port.mdwn @@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ attempts|microkernel/mach/gnumach/ports]] for the Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC architectures. These have not been completed due to little developer interest. Another option is to do the port at a different layer: port the Hurd servers to -not run on the GNU Mach microkernel but on another [[microkernel]], or even on -the Linux kernel, for example. While there have been experiments for [[using -another microkernels|which_microkernel]] or [[having Mach run as a POSIX -user-space process|open_issues/mach_on_top_of_posix]], such a port has not yet -been completed. +not run on the GNU Mach microkernel, but instead on top of [[another +microkernel|which_microkernel]]. Or, even by providing a Mach emulation layer +on top of a monolithic kernel. For example, there could be a port for [[having +Mach run as a POSIX user-space process|open_issues/mach_on_top_of_posix]], or +by implementing the [[Mach IPC|microkernel/mach/ipc]] facility (as well as +several others) as Linux kernel modules. While there have been some +experiments, no such port has been completed yet. |