From: raistlin@wixer.cactus.org (Eli Boaz) Subject: Re: Microkernel Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1993 09:20:33 GMT
In article <1nh5goINN3n0@snoopy.cis.ufl.edu> LIONESS@oak.circa.ufl.edu writes:
>I'm kind of new to the whole Linux bit, but I've noticed that it seems
>to use a monolithic kernel architecture, where you must compile
>capabilities into the kernel. Has anyone thought about letting some
>aspects of the kernel be demand loaded, like .DLLs or shared libraries.
>
>Thus, I can retain TCP/IP support if I wish to do so without changing
>or recompiling anything, but without the overhead of having it part
>of the kernel.
I would love something like this. This is probably a feature that should
be added (no, don't ask me, I'm not very good at kernel hacking .. give me
a year ;-) if it can be added without having to re-write 30% (or more) of
the kernel (ie. a major re-write).
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