Re: What would it take....

Da Zheng <[email protected]> Thu, 24 Dec 2009 08:50:14 +0800

Newsgroups	gmane.os.hurd.bugs,gmane.os.hurd.l4,gmane.os.hurd.general
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[email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 02:31:46PM +0100, Tim Kack wrote:
> 
>> 3. What would it take to enable SMP and/or NORMA-RPC?
> 
> I think we actually nuked NORMA support from GNU Mach... Or at least we
> discussed that.
> 
> Doing network-transparent IPC at the microkernel level is probably not a
> good idea. In fact it's responsible for some of the problems where are
> experiencing with Mach: including the overly complicated ICP path; as
> well as drivers running in the kernel.
So has network-transparent IPC been removed from microkernel or not?

Zheng Da