Old and new L4 APIs (was Re: L4Hurd at Sourceforge)

[Michael Hohmuth]

Farid Hajji <address@hidden> writes:

> If the L4 people could provide us with a coherent view of the current
> (and upcoming) APIs and C-Bindings, that would be _great_! (hint, hint!)

The most coherent view on current APIs is available at
<URL:http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/bib.html>. 

The L4 people in charge of the new L4 API (the Karlsruhe guys) have
decided to circulate the upcoming specification in a limited way first
to keep discussion short and efficient.  They deemed this necessary
because they felt that the current draft is not self-explanatory
enough to be consumed by larger audiences without overloading its
developers with questions.  Let's respect them regarding their
decision.

In the meantime (and in general), I suggest using library APIs that
will remain unmodified regardless of kernel version.  Please have a
look at the upcoming L4 environment, which exists now and is
relatively well documented
<URL:http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/L4/bib.html#l4env>.  A release is
forthcoming as soon as the L4Env developers feel that their users
understand and are comfortable with their libraries.  Try giving them
this impression!  Or even better: Help them by writing a user's guide
for L4Env!

Michael
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