From 3bf27c93ac4de57623809b71517116d51465f0e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2012 12:31:07 +0100 Subject: IRC bits. --- open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+) create mode 100644 open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn (limited to 'open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn') diff --git a/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn b/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f14b777e --- /dev/null +++ b/open_issues/linux_as_the_kernel.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 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]]."]]"""]] + +Instead of attempting a [[history/port_to_another_microkernel]], or writing an +own one, an implementation of a Hurd system could use another existing +operating system/kernel, like [[UNIX]], for example, the Linux kernel. This is +not a [[microkernel]], but that is not an inherent hindrance; depending on what +the goals are. + +There has been an attempt for building a [[Mach_on_top_of_POSIX]]. + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-02-08 + +Richard's X-15 Mach re-implementation: + + and in case you didn't notice, it's stalled + actually i don't intend to work on it for the time being + i'd rather do as neal suggested: take linux, strip it, and give it + a mach interface + (if your goal really is to get something usable for real world + tasks) + braunr: why would you want to strip down Linux? I think one of the + major benefits of building a Linux-Frankenmach would be the ability to + use standard Linux functionality alongside Hurd... + we could have a linux x86_64 based mach replacement in "little" + time, with a compatible i386 interface for the hurd + antrik: well, many of the vfs and network subsystems would be hard + to use + BTW, one of the talks at FOSDEM was about the possibility of using + different kernels for Genode, and pariticularily focused on the + possibilities with using Linux... unfortunately, I wasn't able to follow + the whole talk; but they mentioned similar possibilities to what I'm + envisioning here :-) + -- cgit v1.2.3