I’ve seen this video of Timothy Roscoe at USENIX ATC '21 recently and was very interested in multikernel OSes.

While Barrelfish is abandoned, it seems that Kirsch is his successor.

However, since I’ve seen this video I wonder what changed since the keynote, why it doesn’t seem to be a thing for mainstream kernels and if there was any roadmap/will to expand mainstream kernels like linux to embrace the whole hardware.

Do you have any pointers/ideas or resources to share on this?

  • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Highly unrealistic without significantly redesigning the entire architecture, meaning all your existing equipment will not be compatible.