Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 12:41:01 +0200 From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@selasky.org> To: "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>, Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: compiling parts of kernel in userland Message-ID: <557965BD.5070608@selasky.org> In-Reply-To: <CAHM0Q_PnTwrLfsFM473X5e4FqwoUgAa90K6zHTkKbVPniLtj2g@mail.gmail.com> References: <20150610224654.GM86224@funkthat.com> <CAJ-Vmo=Ek3u4hkv-YX%2B-AQ%2BMjtYa8-%2BsLuAB1CY8D39UzbT4dA@mail.gmail.com> <CAHM0Q_OZaxDyPEkMUfUQnJWRwFLS=Zj9AQwefoLf8qfVgNjueg@mail.gmail.com> <5E0E3EAE-F184-478F-B2A0-D3FAB71ADB20@gmail.com> <CAHM0Q_PnTwrLfsFM473X5e4FqwoUgAa90K6zHTkKbVPniLtj2g@mail.gmail.com>
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On 06/11/15 08:56, K. Macy wrote: > On Jun 10, 2015 11:53 PM, "Garrett Cooper" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> (Adding -testing because this pertains to testing) >> >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 23:48, K. Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> wrote: >> >>> I started work on something I called libukern which allows you to run >>> essentially all non platform code in user adding a PCI passthrough > driver >>> so one can run unmodified drivers in user. Libuinet is great as far as > it >>> goes, but it's just the network stack. If you want something other than >>> just networking you'll have to do something else. >> >> If I had enough time and interest I’d look at investing my efforts in > porting RUMP from NetBSD to FreeBSD and going about it that route, but I’m > busy with other efforts so I can’t dedicate my time here yet. It seems like > RUMP is the direction we should be going in… > > I looked at that first before starting a predecessor to uinet. You'll just > have to trust me: no, it's not. > FYI: We already have libcuse and cuse.ko in base for character devices in userspace. --HPS
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