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Sure, but who's going to write the driver in the first place? Linux's "millions of lines of code" are a really underappreciated asset, there's tons of obscure h
by creshal 3y ago
Sure, but who's going to write the driver in the first place? Linux's "millions of lines of code" are a really underappreciated asset, there's tons of obscure hardware that is no longer supported by any other actively maintained OS.
- dontlaugh 3y agoI also don't see how we could transition to a microkernel, indeed.
- naasking 3y agoThe very first "hypervisors" were actually microkernels that ran Linux as a guest. This was done with Mach on PowerPC/Mac systems, and also the L4 microkernel. That's one way. The only downside of course, is that you don't get the isolation benefits of the microkernel for anything depending on the Linux kernel process.