Appreciated I will. On 28/10/05, ness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Justin Emmanuel wrote: > > OK! I give up. > > > > 1) What is an endpoint? > > > > Once I know that I will know what a capability or an IPC endpoint is. > > > An endpoint is a replacement for thread ids, at least in l4. I don't > know what this is good for in coyotos, actually eros had start > capabilities. Maybye sth. related to events (asynchronus IPC). > For a more general introuduction see the l4.sec paper by bernhard kauer. > > > Been searching for this information on the net and I have not so far > > come up with anything. > > > > On 28/10/05, Jonathan S. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>I do not recall if I have described the gap from Coyotos to EROS here. I > >>have just updated the comparison page at > >> > >> http://www.coyotos.org/docs/misc/eros-comparison.html > >> > >>Surprisingly, the items haven't changed much since I first wrote it. If > >>you read the list of changes, what you will conclude is that > >> > >> a) This is a total kernel rewrite. We can borrow a lot of code and > >> ideas from the EROS kernel, but we are touching enough places that > >> it really isn't the same kernel. > >> > >> b) With the exception of endpoints, none of the changes are > >> conceptually very large. We have refined various data structures > >> and simplified some of them, but the basic ideas and concepts of > >> EROS are pretty clearly preserved in Coyotos. > >> > >> c) A few programs will change significantly because endpoints and > >> events will have significant impact on these programs. > >> > >>The really important thing here is that the basic design model and idiom > >>hasn't changed. This means that the intuition and experience we have > >>from EROS is very directly applicable in Coyotos. > >> > >> > >>shap > >> > >> > >> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>L4-hurd mailing list > >>[email protected] > >>http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd > >> > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > L4-hurd mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd > > > > -- > -ness- > > > _______________________________________________ > L4-hurd mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd >
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