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		pm90 on Dec 3, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: BPF: A New Type of Software Because it has a crap ton of drivers and shit in the kernel, which is the opposite of unikernel/microkernel approach where most of this functionality is implemented in userspace. See eg Minix

gok on Dec 3, 2019 [–]

I think the question was how is it a microkernel at all

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