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by baseballmerpeak 3972 days ago
"An anykernel can be instantiated into units which virtualize the bare minimum support functionality for kernel drivers. We call these virtualized kernel instances rump kernels since they retain only a part of the original kernel."

Page 33, http://lib.tkk.fi/Diss/2012/isbn9789526049175/isbn9789526049...

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This is an example of canonical documentation doing exactly the same thing I just described. I am no more enlightened about what a "rump kernel" is than before I read the paragraph.

Is the implication that we're tossing out the head, neck, loins, bones, organs, etc. and only the delicious bacon of the original kernel is kept? The rump is the part?

Yes, the rump (of the) kernel.