[time-nuts] FreeBSD, NetBSD, or Minix-III?

Chuck Harris cfharris at erols.com
Sun May 17 04:19:39 UTC 2009


Lux, James P wrote:

>> You do the work in the kernel, or you do the work outside of
>> the kernel, but you still have to do the work, and that takes
>> code.
> 
> But lots of embedded applications don't need, e.g., a file system.
> All they need is device drivers, a scheduler, and some sort of messaging
> system. (e.g. Traditional kernel functions).

Traditional monolithic kernel operating systems can be
built to include as much, or as little of these traditional
kernel functions as you want.

Size is not a factor in making the decision over whether
you want/need a message passing microkernel, or a monolithic
kernel.

-Chuck Harris




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