From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264704AbUIOL2l (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:28:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265230AbUIOL2l (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:28:41 -0400 Received: from businessbox3.server-home.net ([195.137.212.33]:64972 "EHLO businessbox3.server-home.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264704AbUIOL1Z (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 07:27:25 -0400 Message-ID: <4148271D.9050009@devilcode.de> Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:27:25 +0200 From: Patrick Kiwitter- Mailinglist User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de-AT; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: monoholitic, hybrid or not monoholitic? X-Enigmail-Version: 0.84.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hello world, i've invested a couple of hours to find a correct description of the linux kernel achritecture. most books or litretures (in general) are talking about a monoholitic kernel (incl. linux kernel development - robert love and understanding the linux kernel - oreilly). i also asked google an read the kernel.org faq. the kernel were mostly descripted as monoholitic. but some sources means that the linux kernel is not really monoholitic because of the feature of loading kernel modules. some pages are talking about a "hybrid kernel" which means that the kernel is a glue one, a little bit of monoholitic and a little bit not. so i would like to receive detailed information where i can read a correct description of course you can also post your comments here (if allowed). by the way, yes i've read the "tanenbaum" reffering monoholitc. thanks a lot in advanced, patrick - -- .O. ..O http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ OOO Administrator of http://www.devilcode.de - the developers community Developer for http://www.lbsdde.de - the localized BSD project chaos computer club http://www.ccc.de - cable salad is healthy - -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GIT d+ dx d s--:-- a-- C+++ UL+++(U-) P+++ L+++ E--- W+++ N++ w--- !O++ >V >Y+ b++(+++) h!(*) - ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBSCcdDHDJZHMNHXYRApP/AKCI8oXZHJVzyr261W+/fWYTCy1HwwCeJZFF 8ugaYwcP3sSCeENnSust4TA= =YKHH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----