On Sat, Sep 04, 1999 at 09:27:00AM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I would like to have multiple kernels in the Debian distribution, so you > > could choose which one you want ot run currently. I don't know hard it is to > > achieve this. Could Hurd be designed to run on different microkernels > > without recompilation? > > This is extremely unlikely, if you want any real performance. > Programs make system calls, down at the root, and one of the key ways > that different microkernels affect performance is by changing the > syscalls. > > You could, of course, do emulation, but then you immediately lose > whatever advantages you would have gotten. > > Basically, I think that libc, the Hurd, and any statically-linked > programs just have to be compiled separately for each kernel.
That's still a reasonable set. So I think the best we can do is to make it possible to install multiple sets of these packages for dual boot. Probably through shadowfs. But that's really only a configuration issue, and has little to do with the development of these ports. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/
