http://www.osnews.com/story/14191/The_L4_Darwin_Project Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Thu, 23 May 2013 04:41:03 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif http://www.osnews.com http://www.osnews.com/thread?110228 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110228 I'm looking forward to trying this out soon. I've been a fan of the L4 microkernel family for quite a while; it's good to see that there's still a lot of activity going on with it. Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (charles) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110229 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110229 I bet 10 € that it's a joke. Damned, why did I open my news aggregator
today anyways? Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:06:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (rylps) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110241 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110241 Since this looks like one of them most interesting projects in ages. Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:32:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CaptainPinko) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110253 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110253 maybe one day we will be able to replace darwin/mach on os x with this. Sat, 01 Apr 2006 18:05:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (broken_symlink) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110317 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110317 One has read so many sites like this. Very well done. The acronyms that almost seem to make sense. The people. The casual tone. Liked it a lot. Sat, 01 Apr 2006 20:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (alcibiades) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110397 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110397 x86 opendarwin may have a future. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 09:03:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (fithisux) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110443 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110443 So was Parrot, ye of little faith. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 17:59:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (smitty_one_each) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110446 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110446 If Darwin gets fully ported to L4, is it "too late" to switch MacOS X to it?

Are there any forseeable issues with device-driver compatibility, application-level API compatibility, or merely a matter of convincing developers on the benefits?

Some may say the Linux kernel is a better choice, but the object-oriented IOKit would make less sense on (or in) the Linux kernel. Driver support is paramount. What would benefit MacOS X the most? What would be the most technically elegant solution?

Revenge of the sub-microkernels?
This will be interesting. Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:13:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jonas.kirilla) Comments http://www.osnews.com/thread?110564 http://www.osnews.com/thread?110564 What would benefit MacOS X the most? What would be the most technically elegant solution?

Probably the solution that requires the least amount of memory. Small memory footprints have a better probability of being properly cache-loaded than do big memory footprints. Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:12:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (SamuraiCrow) Comments