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- From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.200513.16637@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 20:05:13 GMT
- References: <la0fp9INNe3@appserv.Eng.Sun.COM> <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford) writes:
- >lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
- >> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
- >> : but I feel very strongly about one thing [...]
- >> : (according to rumors :-), and that's reloadable device drivers.
- >> : It just seems that the micro kernel people are the only ones doing it.
- >>
- >> SunOS has had loadable device drivers, system calls, and functions (I'm
- >> not sure what you use the last one for but there it is) since SunOS 4.1.
- >
- >So has AmigaDOS, since 1.0. :-)
-
- I've got a month or two to implement them yet (evil grin) - I'm not even
- up to 0.98, and I'm seriously thinking about it. No promises, but it
- looks simple enough (after all: why do you think I gave the kernel a 1GB
- virtual address space when changing the mm...)
-
- Linus
-
- PS. Seriously: it will take a few releases to get anything working -
- 0.98 may have some support for it, but these things take time: 0.12 had
- the kernel support for shared libraries, but only now are they getting
- mature.
-