Gianluca Guida

MH is a personal effort to build systems based on a single, almost arbitrary, abstraction: the device. The original idea was that having a system with a limited, but easily understandable interface would allow to build systems that are easy to grasp and fun to extend.

This talk will tell about the experience of designing MH, the lessons learned, errors made, and what using and playing with such system looks like.

Defining abstractions and mechanisms for inter-process communication is at the heart of every new microkernel design. This talk will introduce MH, a microkernel at its early stages built to experiment with the idea of a microkernel interface heavily inspired by hardware architecture.

The talk will continue by showing how, by exposing an interface composed of entities well known to OS-level engineers, such system can be used to express classical operating systems interfaces or to experiment with newer ideas altogether.