Re: Linux drivers in gnumach

[OKUJI Yoshinori <okuji@kuicr.kyoto-u.ac.jp>]

From: "Christopher C. Chimelis" <chris@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Linux drivers in gnumach
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 11:04:39 -0400 (EDT)

> Perhaps.  I'm looking at both, but working more on gnumach really.  If
> everyone keeps nudging us to work on oskit so much, why does anyone bother
> working on gnumach?  Just curious...

  You just misunderstand something: Not everyone tells you to work on
OSKit. Actually, I myself don't recommend using OSKit.

> gnumach.  I was wondering why the current structure was used (defining the
> types of Elf??_* directly in the machine-specific elf.h file) rather than
> defining them like __u16 Elf??_* in the main elf.h and just typedef'ing
> __u16 (eg) in a machine-specific types header?

  I don't know. Perhaps there was a historical reason.

Okuji