Re: Rewrite Kernel

[Aaron Smith]

Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:

> Guys, gals,
>
> you are all missing the point.
>
> It is obvious that what we really need is a hand-optimized in-kernel
> core LISP machine written in >i386 assembly, then we need to port the
> rest of the kernel to run as LISP bytecode on top of that in ring1 (in
> particular the security policies).
>
> Of course, important privileged user-space such as glibc should be
> ported to this highly efficient non-recursive LISP machine too for
> efficiency and run on ring 2 for speed and security.
>  
What you are talking about is a LISP machine micro-kernel in Ring0 which 
sort of defeats the whole point of Linux being monolithic kernel. Also 
couldn't we just run HURD, or for that matter EMACS ;-), as a kernel. I, 
personally have come around to Linus point of view on the whole 
micro-kernel thing so I don't see much of a advantage to this, as there 
are other micro kernel projects ( HURD, Darwin/*BSD?).

-Aaron
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