Hi, On Sat, Apr 14, 2007 at 02:14:10PM +0200, Martin Barth wrote:
> what can anyone do if he or she wants to help at the micro kernel > thingie? You could help out with ngHurd, once Marcus and/or Neal take up the ball again. You could revive the existing (partial) Hurd/L4 port, moving it to one of the new L4 variants; or start a new port of the existing codebase to some modern microkernel. You could join the x15mach development. This is a new variant of Mach being implemented from scratch, but cleaner, more modern, and stripped of any functionality not actually needed by the Hurd. The idea is to get a kernel that is better maintainable than gnumach, and makes it easier to make fundamental improvments. It's still far from coplete, however. Or you could just help with improving the existing gnumach -- which is still the only kernel actually used in a working Hurd implementation, and thus the only one where improvements will immediately benefit the Hurd... > Spending time for the mach-kernel seems not very clever, if mach is > going to be replaced. Not at all. The Mach-based Hurd implementation won't go away any time soon. And even when one day the mainline Hurd moves to a different microkernel, or fundamental changes are made to Mach (effectively turning it into a different microkernel), any experience with earlier improvments will be extremely valuable. After all, we can't do better with a new variant, without first getting a thorough understanding what to watch out for :-) -antrik- _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
