Chris wrote:
On 16/05/07, Marko Zec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
OTOH, even if we miss the window for sneaking this into 7.0-R, it would
be a huge pitty not to at least reserve a few additional fields in
various kernel structures needed to support stack virtualization. That
way it would be possible to maintain a virtualized 7.0-R kernel in a
separate code branch, which could be used as a snap-in replacement for
the stock kernel even after API / ABI freeze comes into effect. This
would allow us to give people an opportunity to conveniently test and
play with the new framework on an otherwise production-grade OS, while
continuing work towards (hopefully) merging of the chages into 8.0 at
some point.
Would like to see this in 7.0 considering many of us have been waiting
for such a feature since 4.x days. There is patches that make this
work with 5.x and 6.x so I have always been puzzled why it hasnt been
commited to the base, clearly enough time to make 7.0 a dream for
desktop users but I see many server side things been pushed aside.
Please make this happen as waiting for 8.0 seems forever.
We should indeed reserve some spare fields in critical structures to
make a MFC of it an option for 7.1 or 7.2. We'll discuss these issues
here at BSDCan Developer Summit in more details. Marko is currently
sitting about 2 meters from me. ;-)
--
Andre
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