Re: Am I missing something?

[Eric Fluger]

Thanks for the info.

The web site I was referring to was:
http://www.nongnu.org/l4hurd/
This is the first listing you get back from google if you use 
the query: gnu hurd l4

The site does link back to a repository on Savannah, but the 
change log shows the last change to be last April.

BTW: The only L4 news on the site you referred me to was one item 
dated Thu 07/31/2003 (over a year old) with no replies.

> From an outsider's perspective it doesn't look like there's much 
going on.

Eric Fluger
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>   Why not use L4?
>
> There is an effort to port the Hurd to L4.
>
>   The HURD on L4 web site says the project is over.
>
> I don't know what web site you are talking about, sorry.  The Hurd
> pages (http://hurd.gnu.org) have no information about Hurd/L4 since it
> is still in early development.  And these are the official pages for
> whatever is concerning the Hurd project.
>
>   So is there any hurd/l4 work going on?
>
> Yes.  See http://sv.gnu.org/projects/hurd.
>
>   Also: Is the gnu/mach kernel with a typical complement of drivers
>   (I know that's vague, but I can't think of a way around that)
>   installed small enough to fit into the L1 cache of a garden variety
>   cpu module?
>
> Doubt it, GNU Mach is around 700Mb gziped.  Nor would there be any
> gain whatsoever other then by a small constant factor.