From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 7 8:29: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from kcmso1.proxy.att.com (kcmso1.att.com [192.128.133.69]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EC4537B965 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 08:28:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from myevmenkin@att.com) Received: from mo3980r1.ems.att.com ([135.38.12.14]) by kcmso1.proxy.att.com (AT&T IPNS/MSO-2.2) with ESMTP id LAA16625; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:28:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from njb140bh1.ems.att.com by mo3980r1.ems.att.com (8.8.8+Sun/ATTEMS-1.4.1 sol2) id LAA29158; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:23:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by njb140bh1.ems.att.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id <23Y3X2VG>; Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:28:54 -0400 Message-ID: From: "Yevmenkin, Maksim N, CSCIO" To: "'Gustavo V G C Rios'" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Is traditional unixes kernel really stable ? Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 11:28:42 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [...] > > > 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