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Re:The Fiasco microkernel by indigochill on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:23AM (#18192868)
Somebody feel free to set me straight if I'm wrong (my knowledge of kernels is basically a college class and a half), but it seems the key thing here is that it's a kernel oriented around the L4 cache, which seems interesting because that's shared by the CPU and GPU: https://superuser.com/questions/1073937/what-does-l4-cache-h...

So, intuitively at least it seems it's for sharing the kernel workload with your GPU (supposing your hardware supports it)?

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Re:The Fiasco microkernel by klez on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:26AM (#18192889)
Ehm, no, it has nothing to do with the cache, it's just a successor of L3[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#L3

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Re:The Fiasco microkernel by indigochill on Thursday October 11, 2018 @08:31AM (#18192923)
Ah, thanks. Hadn't heard of it, but now I know!
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