From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 26 16:25:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA14696 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:25:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA14682 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 16:25:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA15665; Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:17:05 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199603270017.RAA15665@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: OSF Micro Kernel for Linux/FreeBSD/etc (fwd) To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 17:17:04 -0700 (MST) Cc: mikebo@tellabs.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199603261944.LAA09127@Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Mar 26, 96 11:44:00 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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. > > > >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? > > No, we're not open to the idea. On the other hand, I'm open to incorporating their driver code in a native PowerMac port, once their drive code is available. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.