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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