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QSOE: QNX-inspired OS with dual-kernel architecture

40 pointsby ymz5last Monday at 1:46 PM24 commentsview on HN

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m132today at 5:18 AM

> Skimmer's design intentionally echoes DragonFly BSD's LWKT and msgport subsystems — the per-CPU runqueue, the lwkt_* API surface, the rule that cross-CPU work flows as messages rather than as direct foreign writes. DragonFly's source under ~/proj/OS/DragonFlyBSD/6.4.2/sys/kern/ was studied as a structural reference during v0.1 bring-up.

https://gitlab.com/qsoe/nq/-/blob/bfe5337676ee3818d24db4101b...

Is this Claude going unsupervised? There are also references to CLAUDE.md ("see CLAUDE.md for scope") which is nowhere to be found.

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d3Xt3ryesterday at 8:36 AM

Do you have any plans (maybe in the far future) to re-implement the Photon microGUI system?

Just asking because for me, that's half of what made QNX so great back in the day. Even today I keep raving about that 1.44MB demo floppy, about how polished, performant and efficient Photon was.

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ymz5last Monday at 11:27 PM

To all experts in video cards reading this:

Do you know, how to initialize a NVidia card in the RISC-V system (such as Unmatched or Polarfire) to the basic VGA mode 3 (text mode, 80x25)? :)

I really wanted to get the Real Console for QSOE, but so far all my efforts to run video BIOS (via U-Boot's bios_emulator) are not successful...

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joshutoday at 3:36 AM

will this work with liteX? fascinating project

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fithisuxtoday at 3:57 AM

Is it a micro-kernel based? Because writing kernel drivers is not the most convenient approach.

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