Future big ticket items in Dragonfly?

[Markus Pfeiffer]

On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 12:16:11PM +0200, Carsten Mattner wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Matthew Dillon <dillon at backplane.com> wrote:
> > Whatever people want to bring in.  Graphics will be an ongoing process for a
> > while.  Hammer2 will eventually be ready to go.  As far is work in progress
> > goes, those are the two biggest items.
> >
> > What the future holds after that, I don't know.
> 
> Some ideas:
> 
> Capsicum?
> OpenBSD's security measures?
> RUMP?
> DTrace?
> Power Management enhancements?

I found Michael Neumann's ideas of writing kernel modules in Rust quite
interesting. Of course getting the whole baggage of a Rust compiler in is a
bit of a stretch.

I have been working on an Aarch64 port. Out of my own vanity, I'd like to do
this without copying lots of code from FreeBSD, but I think I'd have to have
massively more free time to do this, and I don't know whether I'll have it.

I also am fully with Matt (I believe it was him who said this) in that
porting/writing drivers for each operating system is a bit of a boring
exercise in pushing bits around and I personally would quite like to just be
able to run drivers without too much porting effort. I'm sure we'll get the
microkernels at some point. We're already running virtualisation layer upon
virtualisation layer, so there surely is no concern about context switch times
or rates there for a lot of people...


Cheers,
Markus
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