Comment by throwway120385
10 months ago
I believe it's a microkernel, so in the sense that every driver is a separate userspace process, yes.
10 months ago
I believe it's a microkernel, so in the sense that every driver is a separate userspace process, yes.
That’s not true. BSD (including all the existing flavors/descendants AFAIK) has a monolithic kernel.
Perhaps you’re confusing it with XNU? (Which is Mach merged with some BSD stuff).