Re: [TUHS] maybe off-topic: Unix on a microcontroller - TUHS

17 Jun 2018

On 2018-06-17 04:00, jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu  (Noel Chiappa) wrote:
...
   From: Johnny
Billquist  
  It's a separate image (/netnix) that gets
loaded at boot time, but it's
 run in the context of the kernel.  
 ISTR reading that it runs in Supervisor mode (no doubt so it could use the
 Supervisor mode virtual address space, and not have to go crazy with overlays
 in the Kernet space). 
Yes. That rings a bell now that you mention it. Pretty sure you are correct.

	Johnny

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