In this interview, LinuxDevices.com's Rick Lehrbaum speaks with Karim Yaghmour, the founder of Adeos, a new open source project to develop an “Adaptive Domain Environment for Operating Systems”. Lehrbaum writes . . .

“The purpose of Adeos is to provide a flexible environment for sharing hardware resources among multiple operating systems, or among multiple instances of a single OS. According to Yaghmour, Adeos will support the kinds of dual-OS Linux environments that are today achieved using RTLinux or RTAI, but without making use of the technology that is the subject of Victor Yodaiken's RTLinux patent . . .”

“RL: As I understand it, what mainly exists today are a pair of whitepapers about Adeos. Is this correct?”

“Yaghmour: Yes. The first paper discusses the design and implementation of a nano-kernel-like facility that may be used to take control away from an unmodified running Linux (on an x86) for further uses, including: patch-less kernel debuggers/probers; running multiple general purpose OSes on the same hardware; OS development; etc. The second document discusses a special case usage of Adeos, that enables a real-time kernel to co-exist with Linux on top of Adeos. This is especially important, as the method described is very likely to not be covered by any patented process . . .”

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