>>>>> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thiba...@gnu.org> writes: >>>>> Ivan Shmakov, le Wed 28 Jul 2010 19:13:44 +0700, a écrit :
>>> - PPPoE/routing/NAT/packet filtering. >> I'd much appreciate IPv6 support, and there will be virtually no >> need for NAT for me then. > AIUI, IPv6 is already supported. Indeed. Somehow, I've failed to notice that. >> • message passing on top of Linux: >> – with a user-space daemon; > Zheng Da's DDE work, yes. As per [1], it's quite the contrary: running Linux device drivers in user-space with Mach as the host kernel, while I'm suggesting running Linux as the host, and Mach in user-space. Somehow, I think that the latter would be a bit easier to achieve. >> Do I understand it correctly that once a Mach could be made to run >> in user-space (the same trick as with User-mode Linux), making Hurd >> run on top of it will be straightforward? > I'd tend to think that, yes. You just need to be able to catch the > few kernel traps (there are really only few of them), and off you go. > The Xen port, for instance, didn't need *any* change below GNU Mach. ACK, thanks. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/dde.html -- FSF associate member #7257
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