[erlang-questions] Erlang on custom OS

[Samuel Barney]

Sorry if this goes directly to you; first time using a mailing group.

How exactly did you go about it? For instance, are you running off a
specific distro?


On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Chris Pacejo <colanderman@REDACTED> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Samuel Barney <samjbarney@REDACTED>
> wrote:
> > I've had an idea churning in the back of my head for a while: Write a
> custom
> > threadless operating system which uses erlang for pretty much everything.
> > I've written a couple of custom kernels before, but this would be my
> first
> > time porting a major project to one. Anyone have any experience porting
> > Erlang to different platforms or an idea of where in the erlang source
> code
> > I should start looking to see what the MINIMAL requirements to compile
> > erlang are?
>
> These people have Erlang running directly on the Xen hypervisor:
> http://erlangonxen.org/
>
> I've been working on my own non-serious-very-much-a-toy project to
> build an OS in Erlang, running on Linux.  (i.e. Erlang is the only
> non-system process running; everything the user sees goes through the
> Erlang VM.)  I only mention it because you might find the same general
> approach suitable: keep Linux around, just to provide the services
> Erlang needs (including those you haven't implemented yet; e.g. native
> TCP).  Linux can be VERY efficient when it's running primarily a
> single process, so you're not really losing performance that way.
>
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