Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:08:55 -0800 (PST) | From | Andre Hedrick <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) |
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Second or Third here!!!
TRG plans to create and publish a native RING 0 kernel and packages. This may end up as a bolt on ./arch or something. Not everyone in the world needs a SUPERCHARGED, FUEL-INJECTED, ALCOHOL, FIRE-BREATHING kernel, but some do!
Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development
On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote: > > Hi Michael, > > > > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > > > Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a > > > modular kernel. > > > > > > Perhaps IBM should get together with SGI, HP and other interested > > > parties and start an Advanced Linux Kernel Project. Then they can > > > run off and make their scalable, modular, enterprise kernel and the > > > Linus Version can always merge back in features from it. > > > > *Are you crazy?* =:-0 > > > > Proposing proprietary kernel extensions to establish an enterprise > > kernel? No thanks! > > Actually, I think this idea is a good one. I'm a big opponent of all the > big iron feature bloat getting into the kernel, and if SGI et al want to > go off and do their own thing, that's fine with me. As long as Linus > continues in his current role, I doubt much of anything that the big iron > boys do will really make it back into the generic kernel. Linus is really > smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be well > aware that 99.9999% of the hardware in the world isn't big iron and never > will be, so something approximating 99% of the effort should be going towards > the common platforms, not the uncommon ones. > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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