From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 2 8:17:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBAD37B85B for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 08:17:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luke@vt.edu) Received: from mail.vt.edu (gkar.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.40]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA27807; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:17:39 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vt.edu ([128.173.93.190]) by gkar.cc.vt.edu (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FVJ001NK95E89@gkar.cc.vt.edu>; Fri, 2 Jun 2000 11:17:38 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 11:17:38 -0400 From: Luke Scharf Subject: Re: Genreal kernel architecture. To: Greg Lehey Cc: "Raymundo M. Vega" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: <3937D012.DD122E80@vt.edu> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12-20 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en References: <39374B81.C1C5B591@vt.edu> <393758F2.150A1FB2@home.com> <20000602173620.T22978@wantadilla.lemis.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey wrote: > In fact, Luke's question was very valid. There are good reasons to > give drivers less power than the kernel itself, and most architectures > have hardware support for such a concept. Unfortunately nobody's > interested enough to change things, though it could make for a more > reliable operating system. Can anyone point me to an overview of the FreeBSD kernel architecure? Thanks in advance! -Luke -- Luke Scharf, Student Researcher & Sysadmin Virginia Tech Configurable Computing http://www.ccm.ece.vt.edu/scharf.htm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message