Why shouldn't it end up in the source tree ? It has nothing to do with
bloating the kernel. Au contraire. A Mach port removes stuff from the
kernel (and puts it in microkernel).
And generally, a Mach version would make it easier to get an initial port
of Linux running on more platforms.
>Besides a real native port would be much faster. ;)
Not much I guess. You can simplify lots of the driver functionality I
think, so that you can reduce most of the overhead to the overhead of
function calls.
According to OSF, it was not much slower than the direct one on a x86 PC.
And, I have kind of bought the idea of the microkernel / VM.
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