On Jan 8, 2010, at 2:43 PM, Tim Newsham <news...@lava.net> wrote:
I might be having a hard time with the Japanese, but my impression
is that
the plan 9 processes are now also L4 userspace servers. This makes
me think
they're not running a paravirtualized Plan 9 on L4, but put L4 INTO
Plan 9.
The paper I found online said they're currently implementing plan9
as a single server and eventually plan to split it off into multiple
servers. Either way, the plan 9 services sit on top of L4. I still
dont understand why they necessarily have to be built with the same
toolchain that builds the L4 kernel itself. Even if its embedded
into the kernel as a root server, shouldn't it be possible to compile
it separately and embed the resulting binary?
possible but you would have to look at the code to see exacly whats
going on
fwiw I haven't peekd at the code.
Dave
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