64 Bit D Kernel

Alexander Panek a.panek at brainsware.org
Mon Oct 22 23:21:15 PDT 2007


Brian Madden wrote:
> As of right now our code is sort of all over the place, and fairly 
> undocumented, but we're mostly groping in the dark right now.  If anyone 
> has questions or comments, feel free to voice them.

I hope there'll be some more documentation, soon. I don't know how you 
guys communicate during development, but e.g. a public mailing 
list/newsgroup/forum would be tremendously cool to track down your 
design/implementation decisions and such (doesn't really make sense if 
you're sitting next to each other, communicating vocally, of course).

Ad comments..mhm.. I got a few questions, if you don't mind :)

- Did you guys try to make the build process work with DSSS entirely?
- Where there approaches to get rid of assembly and/or C?
- How's the memory footprint (what's the minimum amount of memory you 
have to give your virtual machine so that Grub still loads the kernel)?
- ..important question: Why 64 bit? (just interested in your decisions, 
as you might have guessed :) )
- Why exokernel? Why not micro?

.. I think that's it for now. :)

Best regards,
Alex

P.S.: Keep up the good work!



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