FreeLists / openbeos / [openbeos] Re: kernel mime_table module

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael Phipps <mphipps1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I don't really like the idea of putting the mime types in the kernel. 
> Mostly 
> for the reasons that Ingo says. But also because I think that the 
> kernel should 
> do only what only the kernel can do. In other words, without trying 
> to be 
> extreme, I think that the smaller and tighter the kernel is, the 
> better. 

The kernel *could* do anything, it's more of a question if it should 
do.
And the whole thread was basically to move this away from dosfs (where 
it currently is) to some userland API.

> That isn't to say a micro-kernel or anything, but a monolithic kernel 
> that 
> provides only the most necessary of services. 
> 
> With hyper threading (an idea that I think will die) and multi-cores 
> (an idea 
> that I think will thrive) not to mention multi-processor machines 
> becoming more 
> prevelent (esp on the PPC side), it seems to me that there may well 
> be a lot 
> more circumstances where you will have both the user land side 
> (Registrar in 
> this case) and kernel land active at the same time. That would be a 
> very ideal 
> situation for this particular situation.

I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but the kernel/userland 
stuff has just nothing to do with this. The kernel has many threads 
running and if you got SMP, they may all run simultaneously.

Bye,
   Axel.