Re: monoholitic, hybrid or not monoholitic?

[Luca Ferroni]

Il Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:27:25 +0200,  Patrick Kiwitter- Mailinglist <ccc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> ha scritto:

> the kernel were mostly descripted as monoholitic. but some sources means
> that the linux kernel is not really monoholitic because of the feature
> of loading kernel modules. some pages are talking about a "hybrid
> kernel" which means that the kernel is a glue one, a little bit of
> monoholitic and a little bit not.
> 

I think Linux kernel should be considered monoholitic anyway,
because, even it can load kernel modules, they execute themselves
in kernel privileged space.
You can compile some kernel parts as modules, 
so they belong to the Linux core, the only difference is that they
are loaded on demand implying all benefits and disadvantages we know.

Bye
Luca

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