 https://drewdevault.com/2024/08/30/2024-08-30-Rust-in-Linux-revisited.html Oh, yeah, just write a new kernel from scratch - that'll solve it! It's so easy to write a modern operating system kernel, how did nobody ever think of it? https://www.static.linuxfound.org/sites/main/files/lfpub_cp_cost_estimate2015.pdf 7 comments
 @drq oh, I read the article. Yeah, just read through all Linux code and implement all features and bugs. Simple enough for a few engineers, lol :tone_sarcasm: Also: @mo I mean, Linux kernel is literally estimated around billions of dollars in accumulated development costs. The largest project the humanity has ever created, and will probably ever create. "Just rewrite it, lol." @mo If there was some kind of standardized kernel module API/ABI and maybe also device driver API/ABI, it *probably* would have been easier to write a drop-in replacement for the central part of the OS kernel itself. It would have been damn fine if a standard like that existed. Device manufacturers could just write one driver for any number of OS. But there isn't. There just fucking isn't! I mean, microkernels notwithstanding.  @drq I was left with this impression after checking out the redox kernel sources https://gitlab.redox-os.org/search?group_id=3&nav_source=navbar&project_id=17&repository_ref=master&search=unsafe&search_code=true Perhaps I jumped to conclusions too fast, and perhaps there are other ways too. |
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@drq writing kernel may be not so hard...
but then come drivers