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Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@××××××.nl> writes: |
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> Well the kernel is that police agent. The kernel "polices" a variety |
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> of devices including: [...] |
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Just as a side note: what you describe is how it was done in Unix; |
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it's not the only way. For instance, the L4 microkernel contains |
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almost no hardware drivers at all. Hardware drivers have to be |
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implemented as L4 tasks, which do not run in kernel space. One of the |
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main jobs of the kernel is than to translate interrupts into IPC |
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messages, which are sent to the user space hardware drivers. |
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moritz |
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