Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 17:50:52 +0100 From: "Norman Gray" <norman.gray@glasgow.ac.uk> To: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org> Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: freebsd should be rewritten based on microkernel architecture Message-ID: <423845A3-98EA-4F84-92F4-DD1DD26A8DFB@glasgow.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20200417171839.4538036d626667f168936c7f@sohara.org> References: <3f1496d1f598c84b3871b630f161256e152aca75.camel@tom.com> <CAFYkXjmtxL9yuHooDLi%2B9qLM5VzGUvR12Wud3p-A70nfFxg9Tw@mail.gmail.com> <20200417171839.4538036d626667f168936c7f@sohara.org>
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Steve, hello. On 17 Apr 2020, at 17:18, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > If the OP wants FreeBSD running on a microkernel then surely Darwin > is where they should start looking - mostly FreeBSD running on Mach > which > is a bona-fide message passing microkernel. It's a tangent to this thread, but: can you point to anything which discusses this in more detail? I've long known that Darwin is 'mostly FreeBSD running on Mach', or that it has a lot of FreeBSD's userland, or even that Apple have reportedly contracted folk with FreeBSD kernel knowledge to work on bits of Darwin (or have ported bits of FreeBSD into Darwin, or something like that). I'm curious to know more, but details are tantalisingly hard to find. Best wishes, Norman -- Norman Gray : https://nxg.me.uk SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, UK
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