Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:28:42 -0400 From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" <myevmenkin@att.com> To: "'Gustavo V G C Rios'" <kernel@tdnet.com.br> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? Message-ID: <E598F159668DD311B9C700902799EAF44733C4@njb140po01.ems.att.com>
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[...] > > > Worse yet: What about hardware buggy devices? > > > This could case the entiry system to crash, isn't it ? > > > > Yes, incorrectly programmed hardware either by firmware (on > > chip/board) or by drivers can cause crashes and hardware damage. > > > [...] > This design, would not let a system crash due to device > drivers problems > or even bad hardware desgin. > > What all you think about that ? only one :-) performance :-) context switch is a slow operation. Thanks, emax To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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