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matthew green points out;

> why can't we move this sort of code into as machine-independant
> place as possible?  virtual instances are great, so we should try
> to push as much of this into every platform we can.
>
> ie, i agree and support what you're talking about but let's set
> our goals a little higher :)

Ok, have a bigger dream, this time.

- NetBSD kernel has a unique and sane foundation to have multiple
OS personalities to choose struct emul and system call switch which
ELF binaries determine at process invocations.
- SMP support is known mature enough.
- NUMA/ccNUMA aware address space management desirable.
- interelationship among proven and available technologies like
Xen/VT/chip-level-multithread stuffs pose interesting issues to
be solved (re-tackled) by OS foundation itself.
- other cosiderations?

Toru Nishimura / ALKYL Technology