Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 07 Apr 2004 14:12:17 -0400 | From | Aaron Smith <> | Subject | Re: Rewrite Kernel |
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Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
>Guys, gals, > >you are all missing the point. > >It is obvious that what we really need is a hand-optimized in-kernel >core LISP machine written in >i386 assembly, then we need to port the >rest of the kernel to run as LISP bytecode on top of that in ring1 (in >particular the security policies). > >Of course, important privileged user-space such as glibc should be >ported to this highly efficient non-recursive LISP machine too for >efficiency and run on ring 2 for speed and security. > > What you are talking about is a LISP machine micro-kernel in Ring0 which sort of defeats the whole point of Linux being monolithic kernel. Also couldn't we just run HURD, or for that matter EMACS ;-), as a kernel. I, personally have come around to Linus point of view on the whole micro-kernel thing so I don't see much of a advantage to this, as there are other micro kernel projects ( HURD, Darwin/*BSD?).
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