> in order to fix a hardware problem with 4.8 release I need to move to > the current or 4.9 kernel. > Having not played around with openbsd's dev trunk before; what is > expected to work/not to work if I just dump in a new bsd kernel and > reboot? > > I quite happily run git built linux kernels willy nilly on older dists > which MOST of the time is fine. Am I going to be safe doing this in > OpenBSD.
It is safe. But you are on your own when it breaks, and if you file a bug report which doesn't make that clear, and someone catches you, they'll burn you. As long as you understand those ground rules, enjoy yourself!

