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diff --git a/hurd/ng/history.mdwn b/hurd/ng/history.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..c7fba575 --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/ng/history.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="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.txt]]."]] + +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. + +[[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. + +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]].) + +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. + +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." + + [1]: https://lists.ira.uni-karlsruhe.de/pipermail/l4ka/2003-May/000345.html |