From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,6394e5e171f847d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-05 09:19:46 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!128.39.3.168!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!not-for-mail From: Jacob Sparre Andersen Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada OS Kernel features Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 18:19:18 +0200 Organization: Centre for Chaos and Turbulence Studies, Niels Bohr Institute Message-ID: <3B965086.B9D8E007@nbi.dk> References: <9n4euv$t9m$1@slb6.atl.mindspring.net> <3B964C7A.BC04374E@icn.siemens.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: alf.nbi.dk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.net.uni-c.dk 999706759 13218 130.225.212.55 (5 Sep 2001 16:19:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@news.net.uni-c.dk NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2001 16:19:19 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.78 [en] (X11; U; OSF1 V4.0 alpha) X-Accept-Language: fo,da,no,sv,is,de,fr,en Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:12756 Date: 2001-09-05T18:19:18+02:00 List-Id: Alfred: > Brian Catlin wrote: > > > > What sort of features would be desirable/required in the kernel? [...] > You should be able to load/unload a driver dynamically (I hate rebooting > because of driver change). And it would be nice if the kernel was prepared for kernel updates on-the-fly (load new kernel image, copy process information to the new kernel image, hand over operations to the new kernel). For most uses it is of course just a gimmick, but it is likely to win some of the "uptime freaks" from the Linux camp. ;-) Jacob --