[coyotos-dev] Micro-monolithic linux kernel

[Charles Landau]

At 10:34 AM -0400 7/22/07, Sandro Magi wrote:
>Linux to get a userspace driver API to simplify driver development:
>
>'This interface allows the ability to write the majority of a driver in
>userspace with only a very small shell of a driver in the kernel itself.
>It uses a char device and sysfs to interact with a userspace process to
>process interrupts and control memory accesses.'
>
>http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/21/linux-kernel-2623-to-have-stable-userspace-driver-api/
>
>Seems they're hitting that monolithic complexity wall, and the lessons
>of microkernels are becoming more appreciated.

Actually, the motivation for getting drivers out of the kernel seems 
to be to support drivers with licenses more restrictive than GPL.