Hi!
> > The advantage is that there is really not many chance for the kernel
> > to crash, as it only do minimal thing.
>
> It's a nice theory, but in practice you need the device drivers working
> anyway. Having "the kernel" working, but the machine being isolated from
> the outside world with no network or disk access, isn't much different
> from the kernel being dead as well.
Nice things about VSTa ukernel was that things were simple. Do you
want to change your keymap? Just recompile keyboard driver, then
killall keyboard; ./ikeyboard &
... and keymap is changed. Did your vfat driver crash? Never minds,
you just loosed some of your fs's. Just reload the vfat driver.
It should not crash, anyway, but hey: we have one userspace driver
already. It is called X. Keeping it userspace _has_ stability
advantage.
Pavel
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