[okl4-developer] How can Minix 3 be so small

[Martin Christian]

Hi!
 
> To me, Iguana is not good to understand, especially that there are
> much ambiguity in the specification. It is more like an academic
> report than a technical manual, and it seems that some concepts
> are still in development and so hard to correspond to source code.
> Moreover, Iguana is just a new single-address space "mono-kernel" in
> user level, it provides only a basic set of services and is far from
> enough to construct an usable system.
I'm still wondering whether the term "single-address-space" refers to
the use of one address to access all data in a system (like it's
proposed in Mungi) or if it refers to L4 adress-spaces? I've asked that
question some time ago, but maybe it got lost during transition from
kenge-users to okl.
 
> As for Minix3, it grows fast since last year due to good organization
> and open strategy that attracts open-source programmers. And I think
> maybe one day, it will become more influential than L4 if things
> progress as now.
That's a good point! I was also wondering what OKLs understanding of
Open Source is? More precisly these are my questions:

1.) Why is OKL4 developed in a closed source repository? It would add
much more confidence over OKLs commitment to Open Source if they used an
open repository like the Linux kernel does.

2.) What about adding new architectures to OKL4? Assuming I had writen a
port of OKL4 to some new architecture - say AVR32 as it was propsed some
time ago - would there be a chance to get it integrated into the OKL4
release?

This would maybe get more people (especially students) to start working
on OKL4. If you don't want anybody fiddeling with the official OKL4 code
you should maybe go the SUN way. Create a community project (maybe on
sourceforge) to develop OKL4 in an open repository. Take snapshots and
do your extra Q/A on the architectures you officially want to support
and release them on your OKL website.

And one other thing might help: Start a flamewar with Tannenbaum to draw
more attention on OKL4. ;-)

Best,

Martin.

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