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gregkh said at Kernel Recipes this year that "we have a micro kernel and nobody noticed" while talking about eBPF.
by Aissen 7y ago
gregkh said at Kernel Recipes this year that "we have a micro kernel and nobody noticed" while talking about eBPF.
- monocasa 7y agoIt's more an exokernel, but yeah.
- kasabali 7y agoI think he may have said that about "ELF modules" [1] specifically. Because plain BPF code runs in kernel mode and that wouldn't make it a micro kernel. I don't know if elf modules feature has been merged upstream. 1. https://lwn.net/Articles/749108/ https://lwn.net/Articles/749108/