From 4df8e9bc53ebc996fc9140474391e2abd77ddf6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Samuel Thibault Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2010 00:07:55 +0200 Subject: Explain how expensive it is to switch microkernel --- hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) create mode 100644 hurd/faq/how_to_switch_microkernels.mdwn 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. -- cgit v1.2.3