Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:10:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:10:49 -0400 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:13838 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 22 Jun 2002 11:10:48 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux, the microkernel (was Re: latest linus-2.5 BK broken) To: landley@trommello.org (Rob Landley) Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 16:31:36 +0100 (BST) Cc: jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com (Jeff Garzik), lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy), ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds), cort@fsmlabs.com (Cort Dougan), bcrl@redhat.com (Benjamin LaHaise), rusty@rustcorp.com.au (Rusty Russell), rml@tech9.net (Robert Love), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Linux Kernel Mailing List) In-Reply-To: <200206220132.g5M1WjI160594@pimout3-int.prodigy.net> from "Rob Landley" at Jun 21, 2002 03:34:23 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 614 Lines: 12 > A microkernel design was actually made to work once, with good performance. > It was about fifteen years ago, in the amiga. Know how they pulled it off? > Commodore used a mutant ultra-cheap 68030 that had -NO- memory management > unit. Vanilla 68000 actually. And it never worked well - the UI folks had to use a library not threads. The fs performance sucked - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/