Re: cruft and forks

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 11:04:43PM -0500, John Tobey wrote:
> Do you really think I would be better off starting with oskit-mach?
> Note I do not assume that I must fork the code base.  What I've built
> so far on GNU Mach has been carefully non-destructive.  Mach seems
> fairly content to be ported from the i386 to the OTOP "systype".  I'm
> not so sure whether OSKit-Mach will allow itself to be ported away
> from the OS Kit.  Are you willing to consider patches that abstract
> out all OSKit dependencies into the oskit directory or conditional
> sections?

You misunderstood Roland.  OSKit already has support to run OSKit based
kernels on top of Unix.

See the following picture and comment on the OSKit homepage.

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/oskitunix.gif

"The OSKit used on bare hardware (left) and emulated under Unix (right). The
Unix emulation code replaces the kernel support and device drivers, allowing
the same OSKit kernel to run as a process on a Unix system. The shaded
components are the parts of the OSKit that differ in the two environments."

Marcus

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