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Hey everyone!

The thread with all our screenshots was really fun reading. I'm impressed with all the progress everyone has made on their projects.

I thought I'd start a quick poll to see what kind of kernel model we're developing under.

modular microkernel

Modular (something)kernel. Haven't decided yet. Probably micro.

-JL

I decided for simplicity I would do monolithic... I'm gunna try to code it so that if one peice messes up it would kill everything else... Mabye it would be easier to go with Micro. Still building my bootloader. All my kernel does is set the stack and then print P to the console so I figure it is early enough to change.

I'm developing a monolithic. For a while I experimented with developing a microkernel, got to the stage of having an IPC system, basic support for driver functions in userspace (I/O ports, interrupt management), and a VFS server, but I gave up and went back to a monolithic because the IPC system was awful and I didn't like the way the system was designed.

Exokernel, for the sake of being different

Modular monolithic here.

Micro, with as little as possible inside the kernel, and as much as possible in user space. Maybe I'd even call it a nano kernel.


JAL

Microkernel for me . I was intending to do most things in userspace, but things have slowly crept back into the kernel...

monolithic all the way. =)

I consider mine monolithic, although most of the core components are modules that are loaded, but all modules + drivers run in kernel space, hence monolithic.

Mine is a monolithic, but the kernel itself is modular, so I could strip it down if I needed to.

An exokernel with some microkernel flavour. The reason being that for me an exokernel is the most interesting option...