Why Tilck does not have the feature/abstraction XYZ like other kernels do?

[vvaltchev]

(Question moved from the main README.md file.)

[vvaltchev]

Tilck is not meant to be a full-featured production kernel. Please, refer to Linux (or other kernels) for that. The idea for the moment was just to implement an educational kernel able to run a class of Linux console applications on real hardware. At some point in the future and with a lot of luck, Tilck might actually have a chance to be used in production embedded environments (as mentioned above) but it will still be by design limited in terms of features compared to Embedded Linux. Tilck will always try to be different from Linux, simply because Linux is already great per se and it does not make any sense trying to re-implement it. Instead, it's worth trying to create something new while playing the "linux-compatibility card". What I expect is Tilck to start "stealing" ideas from hard real-time kernels, once it gets ported to ARM and MMU-less CPUs. But today, the project is not there yet.