note: full buildworld/buildkernel/installkernel/installworld needed
Matthew Dillon
dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Jul 29 02:23:37 PDT 2004
A number of major structures have changed. A full rebuild is needed
if you want 'ps' to continue to work with newer kernels. Also, a
number of in-kernel APIs have changed so you need a full kernel build
and install (kernel + modules) to guarentee compatibility between the
modules and the kernel. I tried to make things as backwards compatible
as possible... but who knows.
What is changing: The mbuf interface is moving closer towards our
goal of running the mbuf allocator under the slab allocator rather
then as its own allocator. The kernel threading system is being
expanded somewhat to allow custom stack sizes to be specified (required
for NDIS support).
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
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