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From: Jon Masters <jonmasters@gmail.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: Simon Kissane <skissane@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Running user processes in kernel mode; Java and .NET support in kernel
Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 03:16:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <35fb2e59041017191624c9b44b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200410172253.28215.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>

On Sun, 17 Oct 2004 22:53:28 +0300, Denis Vlasenko
<vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> wrote:
> On Saturday 16 October 2004 15:59, Simon Kissane wrote:

> > Also, I found a website by someone who had this idea before me (and
> > unlike me, actually implemented it!).
> > "Kernel Mode Linux" by Toshiyuki Maeda
> > http://web.yl.is.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~tosh/kml/

> Nice page. Doubly nice considering that they have working code.

We looked at it briefly as part of a discussion in the office about
user mode device drivers, not really that seriously - one of those
lunchtime things. In the end it's far better to just mmap /dev/mem and
be done with it anyway. Other than that I can see little use for this.
Machines without an MMU running uclinux effectively run like this
anyway.

Jon.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-18  2:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-16  4:11 Running user processes in kernel mode; Java and .NET support in kernel Simon Kissane
2004-10-16 12:59 ` Simon Kissane
2004-10-17 19:53   ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-10-18  2:16     ` Jon Masters [this message]
2004-10-17  2:27 ` Alan Cox
2004-10-18 19:50   ` Kendall Bennett
2004-10-20 18:59     ` Alan Cox
2004-10-17  4:00 ` Lee Revell

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