Re: linux and micro kernel

From: Val Henson (vhenson@esscom.com)
Date: Fri Jun 09 2000 - 13:56:26 EST


On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Tonglu Yi wrote:

> linux is not micro kernel based OS, would it change to that in the
> future?

This is a FAQ:

http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s1-5

For anyone who thinks it might be good idea to make Linux a micro-kernel,
I suggest Liedtke's L4Linux paper:

http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/pubs/sosp97/

It's somewhat ironic - Liedtke intended the paper to be a defense of
microkernels, but it had the opposite effect for me. :)

-VAL

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