"Alfred M. Szmidt" wrote: > > * Jan Atle Ramsli writes: > > > I think you may find that this will improve with the change from > > Mach to L4. But imagine if the first year had been used to analyze > > and specify it. > > Why? The Hurd is not Mach, or L4, it is just a bunch of translators and is > quite independent of Mach. Yes, we do use drivers and such from it, but I > don't see why it would change anything if we change to L4. Sure, we might > get some speed, but until I see some numbers that the Hurd runs faster > on L4 I won't believe it. :)
Well, now you are at center of the what I think is the problem. Who says either of Mach or L4 is even suitable for this purpose? There was a possibility of a total 'Faridization' of the whole thing (sorry, Farid, (you can imagine how many dinner parties I get invited to) I don't even know if you remember it, but we did talk about implementing a kernel with a minimal API) and it was concluded that nobody would agree to it. > The Hurd is already superior. I haven't seen any questions lately about > why something was designed the way it was lately.. No, I've been busy :-) > And Neal is correct that it is a non-trivial thing, I believe that Roland > or Thomas are working on this right now. If this had been a trivial fix > it would have been fixed a long time ago. To me the word 'trivial' covers more than a 'fix', it includes implementing a driver, but _only_ if the device is well documented. One of my very first programming tasks was building a driver for a graphics device, in 1986! > Why should we throw away every line of code because _one_ translator doesn't > work according to silly 1GB limit? All other parts of the Hurd are quite > robust, and documented, if you read the code. I will unpack & read. > that right now, and the only place to point to is the source code. Would > you like to work on this? I will u&r. > Personally, I couldn't care if we dethrone "the Evil reign", push Linux and > Solaris back or whatever. The goal is and was to bring the missing piece > to the GNU project. And I think that we have done a great job. After u&r-ing, I may or may not come back to you on that. > > PS, > I hope that I didn't sound to flame-ish. =) That is really not so important. Not now. What is imprtant now, is what is being said, not so much how it is said. Had I not let my evil tounge get the better of me, I would not have been incited to .. well, u&r. Right now, the Hurd is finally starting to move away from the water-hole, I don't hear the thunder of 1.84467e+19 hoofs yet, but I hear whips cracking. I will unpack and read! Atle _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd