RE: Kernel config script

On Sunday, May 30, 1999 5:39 PM, Mike Smith [SMTP:m...@smith.net.au] wrote: I think its useful if it gets linux people less afraid of FreeBSD. I'm not sure we want those sort of people. You don't want FreeBSD to have more users? Do you think it already has enough users? How many users is

[Q] LKM linking

Hi All, 1. Is this possible to produce an LKM device driver that would export functions to another LKM driver? 2. If the 1. is possible, will it be possible to load the another LKM driver without loading the exporting driver? Which references would you suggest me to look into? Maybe some known

RE: mmap of a network buffer

My hope was to map the user's buffer into kernel space so that I could do event driven io on the socket without having to context switch to an aiod for every io operation. Is this really a bad idea? I am a little concerned about running out of kernel address space, but I don't think that's

RE: Lazy SPLs

On Thursday, May 20, 1999 7:18 PM, Joel Ray Holveck [SMTP:jo...@gnu.org] wrote: Lazy SPLs - The kernel no longer masks hardware events unless a hardware event actually occurs, avoiding many expensive operations. We've been doing it for as long as I can remember, at least as far back as