[coyotos-dev] More progress, some design issues

[Christopher Nelson]

>
> At this point, I think that we have two design options:
>
> 1. Drop the activation handler idea. This is certainly the easiest
>     thing to do.
>
> 2. Revert to a lesser form of the UPCB: the IPC parameter page.
>     This receives the direct out parameters, contains the receive
>     buffer descriptors, and also contains the activation handler's
>     register transfer/save area. It would NOT contain the architected
>     register set, which is the major source of complexity in the UPCB.
>     It would significantly simplify IPC/invocation stubs.




I think that activation handlers are an extremely useful primitive, and it's
worth some extra work to keep them, IMHO.

-={C}=-
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