On: Snap: A Microkernel Approach to Host Networking

[pjmlp]

Android and Windows as well.

[panpanna → pjmlp]

Linux has been moving towards hybrid drivers for certain components for a while now.

I think you can run large parts of the filesystem and network stack in user-land now.

[pjmlp → panpanna]

There is a big difference is that the other OSes are doing it no matter how many pitchforks come into their way, while with Linux you need to find a security conscious distribution.

[Matthias247 → pjmlp]

I think it’s hard to say that without knowing what’s going on in that companies and how many internal disagreements had been there.

And even if Apple now talks about user-Mode drivers - do we even know what percentage they aim for?

[pjmlp → Matthias247]

Yes we do, as they presented at WWDC, all of them.

They are following a two release steps, in release N, the user space drivers for a specific class get introduced and the respective kernel APIs are automatically deprecated. In release N + 1, those deprecated APIs will be removed.