Subject: RE: vnd: improving support for compressed images
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/29/2007 20:37:46
Haai,
On Fri, June 29, 2007 20:30, Wraukon the Excellent wrote:
> On 6/29/07, De Zeurkous <zeurkous@nichten.info> wrote:
>> Haai,
>>
>>>[snip]
>> When in luser space, componentification is fairly trivial; a lot of
>> complexity will vanish, enabling us to both tune the newly-created d's
>> and
>> the remaining parts of the kernel much more intensively with far less
>> effort -- obviously, the latter will somewhat compensate for the
>> switching
>> deficiency.
>
> The other problem is implementing proper protections in uspace where
> it seems to me they are a bit more prone to tampering than they are in
> kspace.
>

That can be partly solved by implementing a ``system land'', a secondary
(or rather, primary) process space where processes have direct access to
the kernel.

Then again, common sense should do the trick.

Baai,

De Zeurkous
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