From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 26 13:09:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id NAA16712 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA16704 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:09:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.12/1.2) id OAA13438; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:09:25 -0700 From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199603262109.OAA13438@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: Re: OSF Micro Kernel for Linux/FreeBSD/etc To: mikebo@tellabs.com Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:09:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD hackers) In-Reply-To: <199603261648.KAA25149@sunc210.tellabs.com> from "mikebo@tellabs.com" at Mar 26, 96 10:48:43 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > FreeBSD hackers - > I received a copy of this from a friend who does a lot of PowerPC work. > Since I've seen nothing about this on the FreeBSD lists as yet, I thought > some of you might like to know about this new frontier. The article > mentions FreeBSD, but perhaps the discussion is more germane to NetBSD. Mklinux has already seen it's second release. I gather the "port" is far from complete. It also seems to be suffering from some holes in the installation documentation... ;-) I think most of the work to date has been coordinated out of OSF Grenoble. > Is the FreeBSD core team open to the idea of possibly moving to a Mach > 3.0 micro-kernel, or is there significant sentimental attachment to > the traditional, monolithic BSD kernel? Um, speaking *mostly* from ignorance but I think Mklinux is implemented as a single-server atop Mach. So, in that sense, it's still a monolithic kernel (albeit residing atop a microkernel). I don't think they've really gone too far afield and tried for a multi-server... Can someone shed any more light on this? > Unrelated shot-in-the-dark question: Does ANY version of Linux > incorporate the FreeBSD or 4.4BSD Lite TCP/IP networking code? > - Mike