porting L4linux on minix3.
Pravin
shindepravin at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 08:19:28 CET 2008
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Adam Lackorzynski
<adam at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> wrote:
> > I am exploring the possibility of porting Linux on Minix3 on similar lines.
>
> I'd find it more interesting to see Minix on L4.
This is one such attempt in progress called as L4minix
http://research.nii.ac.jp/H2O/L4minix.html
See if it interests u.
>
>
> > L4 and Minix3 are having similarities.
>
> I had the impression that Minix3 has more like a POSIX interface. Now I
> wanted to look at the API, and indeed, on wiki.minix3.org there's a
> kernel-api.pdf referenced but the link gives a 404. Where did it go?
>
>
> > So, in theory, with few modifications, L4Linux should be able to run
> > on Minix also.
> >
> > I wanted some information regarding the approach taken in porting Linux on L4.
> > If there are any documentation/links available about
> > *. how to go in case of these kind of porting of linux on another kernel?
> > *. and how L4linux works internally?
> > *. which architecture dependent code of Linux has been modified and why?
>
> Some of the things can actually been seen by looking at the code. And
> there are some thesis on L4Linux on our website.
>
>
> Adam
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Pravin Shinde
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