Re: For the AdaOS folks

["Marven Lee" <mehs60@dsl.pipex.com>]

Luke A. Guest <laguest@n_o_p_o_r_k_a_n_d_h_a_m.abyss2.demon.co.uk>
> The exec.library is the "microkernel" of the AmigaOS, thus all of the
> functions inside exec.library would become syscalls and it would
> already be in memory, in kernel space, mapped into every running
> application's address space, implicitly.

Or you could move it out of the kernel part of the address space
and  into a server/protected shared library.

Just like the single server Linux and Mach examples I gave.

The only thing my microkernel does is replace your syscall into your Exec
microkernel with a cross-domain call from one address space to another.

The microkernel becomes a glorified interrupt/syscall handler transferring
a thread across address spaces, much like an interrupt/kernel trap
transfers a thread from user-mode to kernel-mode.

Then you only need several system calls in the microkernel.
No need for threads, processes, message ports, memory management,
page tables, syncronisation primitives, scheduler or anything else
in the microkernel.  They are all implemented in one of the
servers/protected shared libraries.


Marv