Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 May 1996 14:44:27 +1000 (EST) | From | Mick J Hellstrom <> | Subject | Re: Kernels - What's in and what's out. |
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote: > > It always amazes me how, whenever any "fantastic" thing that anyone else > > is doing, (read other OSs), people always say, "Oo, oo, Linux can do that! > > Let's stick it into the kernel!" Most of these things don't belong in the > > kernel, and besides, most of these things ALREADY exist in Linux. Like > > voice recognition, (can't remember where I saw it, but someone's already > > done it for Linux). You just have to know where to find it. I'm not trying > > to be nasty to these people who think this way, just merely saying that, > > IMHO, a simple kernel is a happy kernel - keep out the garbage! > > You need some sort of hook in the kernel. The bulk of the voice > recognition software can go in user space, but the kernel needs > to supply some way to put characters into the keyboard buffer. > If not, then voice will only work under X or some other special > environment.
Fair enough, but that shouldn't be more than a dozen lines of code. The point I was making was that we shouldn't stuff everything into the kernel. I'm all in favour of small kernels. If there was a way of reducing the kernel to a ukernel, then I would.
> The bulk of the code should be a real-time process locked into > memory. You wouldn't want your voice software to get swapped out.
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