Modularize kernel

David Taylor davidt at yadt.co.uk
Sun Sep 10 08:18:48 PDT 2006


On Fri, 08 Sep 2006, Howard Su wrote:

> On 9/7/06, gnn at freebsd.org <gnn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> >At Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:47:46 +0800,
> >Hello Howard,
> >
> >The monolithic vs. modularized kernel is an old discussion.  If you're
> >really interested in pursuing this you'll have a lot of work to do,
> >mostly in figuring out explicitly all the implicit inter-module
> >dependencies.  Fascinating and fun, but you likely need a good reason
> >to do it.
> I listed the advantages I can think about. Can they convince you?

They may convince people it is a good idea in principle.

But until someone actually comes up with a solid plan showing how it
can realistically be done in practice, nothing will happen.

-- 
David Taylor 


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