On Thursday 24. May 2018 10.49.03 Richard Braun wrote: > > I've been working on something for a couple of years now. It's not the > Hurd, it's not an L4 derivative, but it shares some of the goals and > the high level architecture. For now, it's only the kernel, and it > doesn't even provide IPC yet, but in the end, it's intended to become > a Hurd-like operating system. You can read more on this web page [1] > and if you want more details, let me know.
I think I saw your X15 project mentioned before, and it is probably something that I should look at more closely. As I noted in another message, my own practical considerations have been dictated by the availability of existing systems for architectures that I want to use (and also experiment with), and so the availability of Fiasco.OC for MIPS was the deciding factor. I read your blog post about architectural difficulties with Hurd-on-Mach, which communicated a degree of frustration with the limitations of these technologies. Do you have any insights into how L4 implementations more recent than Pistachio (which I think was the basis of the earlier hurd-l4 work) might address some of the difficulties experienced, and whether they offer any remedies? Sorry if that's a rather open-ended question! Paul > [1] https://www.sceen.net/x15/
