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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by angrygoat on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:21PM (#15258354)
The docs refer to 'LK' (Little Kernel) as an inspiration for the lower levels of the design. It's another project started by Travis Geiselbrecht of NewOS fame.

https://github.com/littlekernel/lk

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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by zokier on Friday September 15, 2017 @01:12PM (#15258841)
> Travis Geiselbrecht of NewOS fame

To save others from bit of googling, apparently NewOS eventually became the basis for Haiku kernel, Haiku being FOSS re-implementation of BeOS. Travis also worked on some kernel stuff for BeOS, so that lineage makes some sense. Not sure if I missed anything?

Also see this comment thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12271839

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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by tyingq on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:45PM (#15258558)
It is more than inspired by LK isn't it? I'd seen it more characterized as a fork that evolved.

For example...different, but the lineage seems there:

https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/kernel/kern...

https://github.com/littlekernel/lk/blob/master/kernel/mp.c

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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by abdulla on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:58PM (#15259762)
See: https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/zircon/+/master/docs/zx_and...
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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by seren on Friday September 15, 2017 @12:26PM (#15258400)
I have never heard of LK before but apparently it used in Android bootloader, so it makes sense that zircon is based on it.
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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by biktor_gj on Friday September 15, 2017 @02:55PM (#15259723)
LK is also Qualcomm's little kernel bootloader, it might also have something to do with that

(Pdf) https://developer.qualcomm.com/qfile/28821/lm80-p0436-1_litt...

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Re:Zircon Kernel, Core Drivers and Services by 0xelectron on Saturday September 16, 2017 @12:18AM (#15262843)
iirc he works on zircon now.
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