Flux OSKit: Reusable Components for OS Implementation (1997)

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/papers/oskit-sosp97.html

by deepaksurti • 8 years ago

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adamnemecek• 8 years ago

Reminds me of genode

https://genode.org

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genode

snaky• 8 years ago

We built our system, called ML/OS, by porting the Standard ML of New Jersey (SML/NJ) implementation [6] to run on a PC using the OSKit. SML/NJ is a complex, Unix-based system comprising about 144,000 lines of code, in over 1000 source files. The run-time model used by SML/NJ is fairly exotic - for example, the system runs completely without a stack, using instead very aggressive heap-allocation and garbage-collection techniques to manage procedure frames.

rnd0• 8 years ago

1997? The OSKit is old enough to go out and drink beer now, yikes.

They stopped development on it shortly after this, didn't they? Like within 4 years? It's easy to see why, given changes in the codebases that they pulled from (Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD) to support newer hardware.

It's been over 15 years but the impression I have is that the complexity and need for "glue" makes OSKit impractical for learning,and the dated nature of the drivers makes it impractical for cherry picking.

I wonder if we have anyone from the osdev community/forums here interested in commenting. It seems like the kind of thing they'd be very disapproving of[1].

[1]https://wiki.osdev.org/Duct_von_Tape

troglobit• 8 years ago

Wow, I have fond memories from when we tried porting GNU/Hurd to this. Good times! https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/microkernel/mach/history.h...

peter_d_sherman• 8 years ago

FYI: The main project URL listed on the site, http://www.cs.utah.edu/projects/flux/oskit/, results in a "page not found" error.

The correct URL apparently is:

http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/

Flux OSKit: Reusable Components for OS Implementation (1997)

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