Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Apr 1996 15:13:59 -0500 | Subject | [comp.os.linux.development.system] Microkernelizing Linux | From | Arun Sharma <> |
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------- Start of forwarded message ------- From: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@uiuc.edu> Subject: Microkernelizing Linux Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system Date: 27 Apr 1996 15:11:49 -0500
Hi,
Our group here at the University of Illinois is working on a shared memory multiprocessor and I'm exploring some of the OS issues for such processors (http://www.csrd.uiuc.edu/iacoma/iacoma.html).
Since reliability in such multiprocessors is a major issue, we'll probably need to divide the machine into multiple cells and replicate the OS in each one of the cells (compare this with a single copy of the OS in a SMP machine).
Since the OS is going to take up a large amount of the DRAM space, I want to make sure that only the most essential functions are replicated and that most of the OS functionality is in the user space.
I'm considering Linux as the prime candidate for an OS for this work, since it seems to be the most stable, popular and well understood among the existing free UNIX-like OSes.
Any help or pointers to related work are greatly appreciated.
-- Arun ------- End of forwarded message -------
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