Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 07:18:48PM +0100, Erik Verbruggen wrote:
> > My concerns last time I looked at L4 was
> > 
> >   (i) It was written in C++, which I dislike (that's a religious
> >       question, and this is not the right place to argue the details).
> 
> Erm, ok, you took that implementation ("problem" with L4 on Intel is
> that there are actually 3 implementations). This is the better one in my
> opinion.

There are only two for x86 which have a free license, Fiasco and L4KA,
and both are in C++. The others are written in Assembler and have no
license we can use. For Alpha there is a free assembler impl, and for MIPS a
free C one. For StrongARM, L4KA is also available.

I don't know what API's are exported, though.

Marcus

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