No way! Mach still hasn't even hit its stride. It is designed for massive multiprocessing scalability across thousands and millions of nodes. Unfortunately Hurd hasn't advanced enough yet for it to really go online. Theoretically Hurder's could link their machines into one humongous supercomputer via the internet.
AFAIK, L4 just doesn't have this capability. It is faster in a uniprocessing scenario, but cannot scale in its current state. The L4/Hurd project is just trying to leverage existing code from Hurd so that they can have a native OS for their kernel.
Also, Hurd need not be tied to any particular one microkernel, in fact the more the merrier. You could probably even make Hurd run under Linux although it would be an extremely redundant kind of thing to do.
- Doug
Catalin wrote: > Jeff Bailey wrote: > >> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 09:11:39PM +0100, Jeremy Bryant wrote: >> >>> Is it at all possible to try and patch up drivers this way? Should I >>> just wait for OSKit Mach? >>> >> >> While you're welcome to hack drivers into gnumach, I suspect that you >> won't see a new package for it. Can you try the oskit-mach at >> http://people.debian.org/~jbailey? If that supports your driver, then >> all you're waiting for is a usable console. If not, please let me >> know and I will add it. >> > From what I see it is planned to stop developing the mach mircokernel > and use L4 instead. > Why are you still asting your time with mach??? > > Catalin > >> >> > >
