[okl4-developer] HAL

[Jorge Torres]

Thanks Ben

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 1:04 AM, Ben Leslie <benno at ok-labs.com> wrote:

> On Sun Feb 24, 2008 at 02:21:57 -0500, Jorge Torres wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've had so much fun reading your blog in this night, specially with
> >Gernot's great taste for writing, but I wonder after his nanokernel
> >blog-post, isnt a microkernel, such as OKL4 a particular case of a
> Hardware
> >abstraction Layer software, why can't microkernels be considered as HALs?
> >
>
> Hi Jorge,
>
> In my opinion at least, a microkernel is not considered a HAL, because
> a microkernel is not designed to abstract hardware (although it does
> in some cases end up doing this), and because it only abstracts a small
> subset of hardware.
>
> A slightly longer explanation is available on my blog:
> http://benno.id.au/blog/2008/02/25/are-microkernels-hals
>
> Cheers,
>
> Benno
>
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