On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Nils Holland <n...@tisys.org> wrote: > C. P. Ghost wrote: > >> As far as I know, Windows NT is a microkernel arch, and >> faulty drivers, often provided by external vendors would not >> bring that system (as much as we hate or despise its >> Windows OS personality that runs on top of it) to a complete halt. > > I don't know ... when Windows crashes (I'm no fan of it either, but anyway) > and you ask Microsoft about it, then it's most of the time an external > driver that is responsible. Graphics card driver seem to be the cause most > often, but other stuff as well.
(...) > Greetings, > Nils a) NT isn't really a microkernel; most drivers run in kernelspace and can happily mess things up if they fail. b) Graphics drivers are actually one of the things they've fixed (well, re-fixed; this was also the case in 3.51) - from Vista and onwards they mostly live in userspace. (I've had the graphics driver crash on me a few times - it's restarted automatically, and all that happens is that the screen goes black for some seconds. It's kind of impressive.) More on topic, I can only agree with the majority - failing fast is a feature, both to mess things up as little as possible, and to make diagnostics and later fixing easier. -- Daniel Nebdal _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
