[okl4-developer] Questions about the current state of Wombat/Iguana

[Subcommander l0r3zz]

After reading  various papers on the OK Labs and NICTA sites, I have some
questions about the current state of Wombat....


1) Does a Wombat process run in a EAS? Or does it share address space with
Iguana in any way?
2) Obviously *busybox  *is a Wombat process, if I execute something like :

       vi foo &

   does this fork a new Wombat process (PD)  with a separate AS or a thread
in the same AS?
3) If I load another program into the root image, like say, *emacs*,  but
not link it into the *busybox* glob, will this execute in the same AS as the
*busybox* process that spawned it or is it a separate L4 (Wombat) process
(PD) ?
4) Is there network support for ethernet devices other than pcnet32?
5) I've heard that there isn't support for DMA devices in Wombat, it that is
true, how does the hd driver work?
6) Can Wombat  *userland* programs execute L4/Iguana calls? specifically,
can I send IPC to a service that is not in my AS?
7) I'm told that I can write a Wombat driver that can communicate with an
L4/Iguana service, this implies that the code in arch/l4 can execute L4 IPC,
no?
8) Is there DMA and/or network support in Iguana?
9) Is there support for multi cores in Iguana?
10) Does any of this run on 64 bit architectures  (ia64 ) ?
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.okl4.org/pipermail/developer/attachments/20080127/072fd521/attachment.htm