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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 00:08:55 -0800 (PST)
From: Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
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        Michael Rothwell <rothwell@holly-springs.nc.us>,
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)
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Second or Third here!!!

TRG plans to create and publish a native RING 0 kernel and packages.
This may end up as a bolt on ./arch or something.
Not everyone in the world needs a SUPERCHARGED, FUEL-INJECTED, ALCOHOL,
FIRE-BREATHING kernel, but some do!

Andre Hedrick
CTO Timpanogas Research Group
EVP Linux Development, TRG
Linux ATA Development


On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Larry McVoy wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 08:44:11AM +0100, Christoph Rohland wrote:
> > Hi Michael,
> > 
> > On Wed, 08 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote:
> > > Sounds great; unfortunately, the core group has spoken out against a
> > > modular kernel.
> > > 
> > > Perhaps IBM should get together with SGI, HP and other interested
> > > parties and start an Advanced Linux Kernel Project. Then they can
> > > run off and make their scalable, modular, enterprise kernel and the
> > > Linus Version can always merge back in features from it.
> > 
> > *Are you crazy?* =:-0 
> > 
> > Proposing proprietary kernel extensions to establish an enterprise
> > kernel? No thanks!
> 
> Actually, I think this idea is a good one.  I'm a big opponent of all the
> big iron feature bloat getting into the kernel, and if SGI et al want to
> go off and do their own thing, that's fine with me.  As long as Linus 
> continues in his current role, I doubt much of anything that the big iron
> boys do will really make it back into the generic kernel.  Linus is really
> smart about that stuff, are least it seems so to me; he seems to be well
> aware that 99.9999% of the hardware in the world isn't big iron and never
> will be, so something approximating 99% of the effort should be going towards
> the common platforms, not the uncommon ones.
> -- 
> ---
> Larry McVoy            	 lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitmover.com/lm 
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