Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2002 10:12:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Seva Tonkonoh <seva3@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: intermezzo? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1020907100805.62812H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <HCEFKCPGKNFEEKENEECHIEIMCBAA.seva3@pacbell.net>
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On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Seva Tonkonoh wrote: > I have recently come across an old little discussion about InterMezzo. > I 've got the impression that it wasn't really welcome to FreeBSD. > > Just curious if something similar has been done for FreeBSD, or if > someone is working on such thing. I am actually looking for an MS > research project topic and Intermezzo seemed to be an interesting > possibility. Other suggestions would be also helpful. I had dinner with Peter Braam a few months ago, and should probably have inquired about it then, but we were rather caught up in other conversations. Given that it's follow-on work to the Coda work, and Coda runs on FreeBSD, the changes are pretty good the design would work on FreeBSD, although the kernel code certainly wouldn't. The devil is always in the details, of course, and given that no one has yet found the motivation or time to do a port, there are either a lot of details, not much interest, or no resources for the port :-). The good news is that if the Intermezzo design is as one would expect, the userland component should probably port with relative ease between platforms. Since InterMezzo is open source and research, my suspicion is that given appropriate investment of time or money, a port would be forthcoming with relative ease. Integration back in to FreeBSD's base operating system code would be (as pointed out elsewhere in this thread) limited for license reasons, but nothing says it can't be in our third party ports/packages section which is rife with variety of licenses. I would personally be very interested in seeing a port done, but don't have any resources to make it happen at this point. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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