Hi, > so you might get more hardware support, but you'd lose all the userspace > code, so would it really end up that much more capable?
I don't understand what "lose all the userspace code" means. The objective of the exercise is to enable Plan 9's userspace to work unmodified on Linux. It boils down to Linux's drivers/schedulers/et.al. but Plan 9's programming environment. You'd still use /net to do network programming, use libdraw and not X, so to the programmer the fact that the distribution is running the Linux kernel is not known. Performance-wise, I see how it would be a bad idea; since read/write to /net will ultimately result in a socket-like call, so there would be a overhead. -- Anant
