Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 21:49:45 -0800 (PST) From: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Sujal Patel <smpatel@wam.umd.edu>, terry@lambert.org, hasty@rah.star-gate.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Pageable kernel? [was: PnP Proposal] Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960110214551.516A-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199601110303.UAA16329@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Terry Lambert wrote:
> As far as kernel bloat goes: we need pageable code for parts of the
> kernel. A lot of people hate this, arguing that kernel paging is
> bad... in which case, we should be keeping DOS loaded as part of our
> boot code instead of reclaiming the 640k. 8-).
You know, this would be a cool idea in any case. I know that the
difficulty would be almost prohibitive at this point, and the end result
might bear little (if anything) to the basic 4.4BSD kernel we have now,
but I would LOVE to eventually see a fully pageable, modular
microkernel-type design (with dynamic memory management) a la Solaris,
where every filesystem, device driver, etc, is a separate file. I know,
I'm dreaming, but it would still be nice...
Of course the Solaris "microkernel" is about 900k, so I'm not sure we'd
wind up ahead in the end.. :-)
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Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
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