ngHurd (was: Re: Device drivers in Mach?)

2007-03-26 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 10:08:35AM -0400, Barry deFreese wrote: > I suppose that depends on who you ask. Some of the bigwigs are > looking at a totally new system based on Coyotos. Minor nitpick: My latest impression was that Marcus doesn't have any preference for Coyotos anymore; the new L

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-22 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Barry deFreese dies 22/03/2007 hora 10:08: > (Though from what I understand, some of the new derivatives of L4 > might be more compatible). Yes, both Coyotos and L4.sec would provide the needed features, IIUC. The thing is, Coyotos is developed more openly with some hard deadlines, wheras

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-22 Thread Barry deFreese
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:00:29PM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: Mach is old [...] [...] Hurd on L4 project is stalled [...] Sooo... what's the plan? Stay with Mach and feed that old stuff? Leslie I suppose that depends on who you ask. Some of the bigw

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-22 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 10:00:29PM +0100, Richard Braun wrote: > Mach is old [...] > > [...] > > Hurd on L4 project is stalled [...] Sooo... what's the plan? Stay with Mach and feed that old stuff? Leslie -- NEW homepage: https://viridian.dnsalias.net/~sky/homepage/ gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread Richard Braun
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 08:54:24PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > > > Your observation is correct. All of Mach's drivers currently reside > > inside the kernel. AFAIK, Mach's IPC is too slow to support user > > space drive

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread leslie . polzer
On Wed, Mar 21, 2007 at 09:01:35PM +0200, Constantine Kousoulos wrote: > Your observation is correct. All of Mach's drivers currently reside > inside the kernel. AFAIK, Mach's IPC is too slow to support user > space drivers. Phew. Don't they have that in Minix? I think I remember starting the R

Re: Device drivers in Mach?

2007-03-21 Thread Constantine Kousoulos
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Hello Leslie when I went to the task page with notes on the coming sound system, I noticed that it's written there that device drivers go into Mach. Why is that? I thought a big point of micro kernels was that a single malfunctioning driver couldn't affe