From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Subject: Re: GNU kids on the block? (sorry... couldn't resist) Date: 31 Aug 1992 20:05:13 GMT
In article <1992Aug31.185733.21037@hpmcaa.mcm.hp.com> bryanf@hpmcaa (Bryan Ford) writes:
>lm@slovax.Eng.Sun.COM (Larry McVoy) writes:
>> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
>> : but I feel very strongly about one thing [...]
>> : (according to rumors :-), and that's reloadable device drivers.
>> : It just seems that the micro kernel people are the only ones doing it.
>>
>> SunOS has had loadable device drivers, system calls, and functions (I'm
>> not sure what you use the last one for but there it is) since SunOS 4.1.
>
>So has AmigaDOS, since 1.0. :-)
I've got a month or two to implement them yet (evil grin) - I'm not even
up to 0.98, and I'm seriously thinking about it. No promises, but it
looks simple enough (after all: why do you think I gave the kernel a 1GB
virtual address space when changing the mm...)
Linus
PS. Seriously: it will take a few releases to get anything working -
0.98 may have some support for it, but these things take time: 0.12 had
the kernel support for shared libraries, but only now are they getting
mature.