Re: Why NetBSD uses monolithic kernel?

David Holland <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Nov 2015 22:28:59 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.devel.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 06:33:18AM -0700, fran?ais wrote:
 > In all references that I have read, monolithic kernels are known for being
 > cumbersome, difficult to maintain, difficult to debug, coding in kernel is
 > very challenging, a faulty part of kernel can bring down the whole system
 > and so on ... .
 > On the other hand, hybrid kernels and micro-kernels have solved these
 > problems. I wonder why NetBSD uses monolithic kernel?

Welcome to the real world, as opposed to academic fairyland :-)

(disclaimer: I am a participant in academic fairlyland)

-- 
David A. Holland
[email protected]