components which are too bloaty to be included in rumpkern (where
bloaty means "can be easily left out without anyone missing"), but
generally do not require the support of the dev/fs/net factions to
function. As the first one, add ksems. librumpcrypto will migrate
here too once I get my timeslice to deal with the setlists, as most
likely will tty support.
/sys/rump contains programs which run unmodified kernel code in an
emulated userspace environment. The kernel environment is provided
by librump. Currently supported are a number of file systems,
which by using puffs integrate seamlessly into the system and
provide a similar user experience to if the code was running as
part of the kernel. Potential future rumpification targets include
for example parts of the networking stack and some device drivers.
This work was supported by Google Summer of Code 2007.
pooka