From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: David Craven <david@craven.ch>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Microkernel & guix
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2016 00:29:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d1g9807y.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAL1_imnopAqPPRFE_iG0tZFbiU=jE-6GbO3T2ZFVXRFLEEAi_w@mail.gmail.com> (David Craven's message of "Sat, 24 Dec 2016 21:06:28 +0100")
David Craven <david@craven.ch> skribis:
> So after doing some hardcore reading of most of the genode operating
> system manual today (excluding the build system, under the hood and
> functional specification parts) I think I have a better understanding
> of how guix and genode could complement each other and what steps
> could be taken. Here are my initial thoughts:
>
> 1. genode-build-system would be used for building genode components.
> 2. genode-operating-system would specify the configuration of genode
> components and generate their xml configuration and guix system vm
> would assemble a full bootable genode system.
> 3. guix-daemon component based on the nix-daemon component is needed.
> 4. using this new component support for generations and genode system
> reconfiguration can be added
> 5. a shepherd component is created and the genode-operating-system is
> extended to take one or more operating-system declarations to spawn
> guix userspaces. For a genode-operating-system implementing a headless
> hypervisor each application can run in it's own shepherd component,
> maybe requiring an additional shepherd-multiplexer component. If
> building a desktop os it can be run in a single shepherd component
> with exclusive access to the framebuffer and input components.
>
> I'll have to see if my time, skill and discipline is enough to
> materialize into something useful :)
Sounds like fun anyway. :-)
Ludo’.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-30 23:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-21 12:26 Microkernel & guix David Craven
2016-12-21 15:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-12-22 11:27 ` ng0
2016-12-24 20:06 ` David Craven
2016-12-30 23:29 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
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