Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 25 Feb 1998 22:48:53 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Heide Clausen <> | Subject | Re: GGI debate and etc. |
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For the academic sake of argument: What _is_ then qualified to get into a kernel? To me it seems like Dr. Broadhurst is of the opinion that a kernel should be minimal and not include device dependent code. This is interresting, as it is even more minimal than the "microkernels".
I am neither for nor against GGI (I do not know anything about it), but I find the discussion about what goes into a kernel and what does not rather interresting. Most argue, that the operating system should be some abstraction over the actual hardware - at least that's what I beleive I have read in A.S. Tannenbaum's and/or William Stallings nice books about OSes. Linux does at the moment go along that tradition.
I would find it most interresting if Dr. Broadhurst would elaborate a little on his thoughts - if being off-topic here, then private email would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance
- --thomas
On 25-Feb-98 Bill Broadhurst wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 1998 at 12:35:58PM -0800, Gerhard Mack wrote: >> On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Bill Broadhurst wrote: >> >> > Not blinded, just indifferent. I don't want GGI in the >> > kernel >> > because I don't want to waste space on my system for it's >> > code. >> > Not that space is an issue, I have many megabytes free. I >> > just >> > object to having to waste any of it just because some bimbo >> > wants graphics. >> >> It seems to me you could make the same argument for most of >> the stuff >> Linux supports, I don't use ham or appletalk but I am willing >> to "waste >> the space" so some other people can use it. This debate >> should IMHO be >> based on the techical merrits of having ggi vs bot having it >> not on >> such an outright selfish approach as I have just read. >> >> If you don't like it and it's there don't compile it. >> > > I never do. But this wasn't about something that's already > there. > This was about adding something new. > > Besides, the code is in the tree whether it's compiled or not. > THAT's > to what I object. > > > -- > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > Dr. Bill Broadhurst | Independent contract > Engineer. > (619)296-3710 | BIOS, Firmware, & > Diagnostics. > bbroad@CX492564-a.dt1.sdca.home.com | Finger for PGP 5.0 > public key. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > ------- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
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