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diff --git a/hurd/ng/history.mdwn b/hurd/ng/history.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 652bccf3..00000000 --- a/hurd/ng/history.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,50 +0,0 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 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]]."]]"""]] - -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 [[mailing_lists/l4-hurd]] mailing list 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. - -Neal Walfield started the original Hurd/L4 port while at Karlsruhe in 2002. -He explains: - -> 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. - -> 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]].) - -> 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. - -A lange number of discussion threads can be found in the archives of the -[[mailing_lists/l4-hurd]] mailing list. - -> 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. |