Re: Kernels - What's in and what's out.

Mick J Hellstrom (mickh@rd.scitec.com.au)
Thu, 9 May 1996 14:44:27 +1000 (EST)

On Tue, 7 May 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > It always amazes me how, whenever any "fantastic" thing that anyone else
> > is doing, (read other OSs), people always say, "Oo, oo, Linux can do that!
> > Let's stick it into the kernel!" Most of these things don't belong in the
> > kernel, and besides, most of these things ALREADY exist in Linux. Like
> > voice recognition, (can't remember where I saw it, but someone's already
> > done it for Linux). You just have to know where to find it. I'm not trying
> > to be nasty to these people who think this way, just merely saying that,
> > IMHO, a simple kernel is a happy kernel - keep out the garbage!
>
> You need some sort of hook in the kernel. The bulk of the voice
> recognition software can go in user space, but the kernel needs
> to supply some way to put characters into the keyboard buffer.
> If not, then voice will only work under X or some other special
> environment.

Fair enough, but that shouldn't be more than a dozen lines of code. The
point I was making was that we shouldn't stuff everything into the
kernel. I'm all in favour of small kernels. If there was a way of
reducing the kernel to a ukernel, then I would.

> The bulk of the code should be a real-time process locked into
> memory. You wouldn't want your voice software to get swapped out.

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