#2 Port 2.4 Kernel to Mach

[David A. Gatwood]

Title speaks for itself, really. When somebody gets
a weekend free, it would be nice to get a 2.4 kernel
port to the mach MK. It would probably be
straightforward to start from the user space linux
port and just redo the same sorts of tricks.

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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Gatwood, you are a crazy nutter.
Not only you could not code properly one line of kernel, but you
don't even understand that it's not a weekend worth of work.
Otherwise, spend a weekend learn programming and on weekend
update 2.0 kernel to 2.4.
(on third and last weekend find pattern in pi and figure out who
killed JFK)

[David A. Gatwood]

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I note that whoever wrote that comment didn't have the guts to log in
first....

I may be crazy, but not in that time estimate. One of the MkLinux team
(Kaoru, I think) did a basic bringup of the bulk of a 2.2 kernel in, if
memory serves, a single Saturday. The ony thing missing was adding
the pass-thru drivers to Linux to make it talk to the Mach driver
framework. Our best estimate is that it was somewhere between half
and two-thirds finished at that point.

Now I would be crazy to suggest that it could be updated, debugged,
and shipped in a single weekend, but I didn't say that it could. However,
a weekend (e.g. evening Friday through Evening Sunday) -is- enough
time for a very rough first cut at a port.