From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 7 16:10:50 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E22C137B405 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:10:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from moghedien.mukappabeta.net (moghedien.mukappabeta.net [194.145.150.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA2743F93 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:10:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mkb@moghedien.mukappabeta.net) Received: by moghedien.mukappabeta.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E41042CA4; Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:11:11 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 8 Mar 2003 01:11:11 +0100 From: Matthias Buelow To: Bill Moran Cc: Damien Tougas , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A question about kernel modules Message-ID: <20030308001111.GB7867@moghedien.mukappabeta.net> References: <200303071155.43785.damien@tougas.net> <3E68FBD4.2090401@potentialtech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E68FBD4.2090401@potentialtech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Moran writes: >First would be historical. BSD is historically a monolithic kernel. The >more >you rely on modules, the more the kernel acts like a microkernel. I suspect The kernel will still not be a microkernel.. it doesn't really matter at what time the stuff is linked; a microkernel generally uses message passing between mostly independent server processes, which is not what the BSD kernel does. -- Matthias Buelow To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message