>It would still make development of some parts of the kernel easier >(for example: file systems. My attempts to get reiserfs ported are no= >t >very fruitfully as each panic-reset-test-recompile-boot-panic cycle >takes ages on this old Ultra5). First at all you don't need a separat= >e >box and *physical* access - you just run the process and that's it >(then I could use a V890 here instead of this lame Ultra5).
Agreed (though filesystems in particular could be developed in userland to a large extent) But then again, the part which needs porting most is the kernel interface and that part is difficult to emulate in userland. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
