Re: Reviewing Hurd-on-L4 (and considering its future?)

[Richard Braun]

On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 05:21:32PM +0200, Paul Boddie wrote:
> So, has anyone seriously considered a fresh approach to this endeavour using 
> more recent L4 implementations and environments? I largely ask because I have 
> been developing programs to run on certain niche hardware devices using L4Re 
> and the Fiasco.OC microkernel, and although some aspects of this are 
> frustrating, it is surprising how much supporting code there is already. I 
> can 
> envisage building components on top that support a more general computing 
> environment.
> 
> Does anyone have any constructive perspectives on this?

I've been working on something for a couple of years now. It's not the
Hurd, it's not an L4 derivative, but it shares some of the goals and
the high level architecture. For now, it's only the kernel, and it
doesn't even provide IPC yet, but in the end, it's intended to become
a Hurd-like operating system. You can read more on this web page [1]
and if you want more details, let me know.

-- 
Richard Braun

[1] https://www.sceen.net/x15/