Questions tagged [microkernel]

Microkernel is a highly limited kernel that usually only supports address space management, thread management and inter-process communication when other parts of the OS run in userspace.

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how to implement semaphore without DI/EI, TS and CS instructions

I am reading the operating systems book by Milan Milenkovic (http://books.google.co.in/books?id=wbvHuTfiQkoC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false). From this i understood how semaphore can be implemented using the following assembly instructions…
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Akka Microkernel on Heroku

I have an Akka 2.1.0 running on a Microkernel. On my local machine I run sbt dist to build the exec and then cd target/dist and bin/akka sample.kernel.hello.HelloKernel. Heroku uses an automatic sbt clean compile stage command to build a…
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Instantiation in AKKA Microkernel

Having followed the documentation example (2.1.4), I was having trouble with a Microkernel loaded actor processing messages, where the Bootable extension class is defined as follows: class HelloKernel extends Bootable { val system =…
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Compiler error when specifying main class in Akka microkernel?

Here's my project definition in my Build.scala. When I go to run sbt run or sbt dist I get the same compiler error of not found: value distMainClass. It's quite annoying since I checked the akka-microkernel-plugin project to find distMainClass right…
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How to compile Mach 3?

I am interested in the mach operating system these days. However, I found it seems pretty difficult to build it on a modern Linux system, like Debian Wheezy. So I wanna know if there is any way to build this and boot it? Any ideas and advises are…
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Why micro kernel of Windows NT doesn't directly interact with the hardware

In micro kernel system structure,hardware is not interact with the micro kernel. So I want to know why micro-kernel of Windows NT doesn't directly interact with the hardware layer? here is diagram what I am talking about Mico kernel System…
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