From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 10 19:21:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18C6914C2A for ; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 19:21:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA09273; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:21:11 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id UAA12619; Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:21:09 -0600 Date: Sun, 10 Oct 1999 20:21:09 -0600 Message-Id: <199910110221.UAA12619@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Smith Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: KLDs In-Reply-To: <199910102202.PAA08093@dingo.cdrom.com> References: <199910102202.PAA08093@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Could things be done in such a way that like QNX, it can > > kill and restart a misbehaving driver? What other cool things can be > > done? > > QNX doesn't do that. Actually, in many cases it does. There are numerous advantages in a well-designed/optimized micro-kernel that FreeBSD will never have. [ However, as has been shown by the plethora of poor micro-kernel implementations (QNX not withstanding), it's hard to implement a well-designed/optimized micro-kernel, especially one that is not architecture dependant. ] Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message