Re: Darwin on L4
Re: Darwin on L4
- Subject: Re: Darwin on L4
- From: "David Leimbach" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 11:41:56 -0800
On 3/31/06, Nick Lauland <email@hidden> wrote:
> For a good demo cd of the potential of L4, take a look at
> http://demo.tudos.org/
Yeah that's the one that uses FreeBSD's ATA drivers in userspace
processes to wipe your disk (if you boot it with --readonly removed).
Dave
>
> On Mar 31, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Michael L Torrie wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 08:26 -0500, André-John Mas wrote:
> >> Out of curosity, what advantages does the L4 Microkernel provide over
> >> the current one?
> >
> > I'm not sure about the practical value, but L4 can host darwin, linux,
> > and other "personalities" simultaneously. Very cool. The web page
> > indicates this is mainly a research project looking into large-scale
> > microkernel architecture issues. In some ways L4 is looked at as the
> > successor to Mach, at least in the research context. Whether any of
> > this will be directly useful to darwin users (today) is kind of
> > besides
> > the point. Down the road, though, this kind of research will yield
> > some
> > very impressive and cool systems for the next generation of operating
> > systems.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> >
> >>
> >> Andre
> >>
> >> On 31-Mar-06, at 02:03 , Tom Birch wrote:
> >>
> >>> We've been working on porting Darwin (currently working with the
> >>> 8.2 source base) to the L4 Microkernel for a while, and now we've
> >>> just made a release. The complete source is available, as well as a
> >>> QEMU boot image, and instructions for booting on real hardware. See
> >>> http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au/software/darbat/ for more details.
> >>>
> >>> Any feedback or questions are welcome.
> >>>
> >>> Tom
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