Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 15:00:02 -0500 From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> To: Dan McDonald <danmcd@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: How many patches to non-CPU-specific parts of 4.4-Lite? Message-ID: <9501242000.AA07305@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <9501232326.aa12676@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil> References: <9501232326.aa12676@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil>
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<<On Mon, 23 Jan 1995 18:26:38 -0500 (EST), Dan McDonald <danmcd@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil> said: > In particular, I'm interested to know if you have changed the way 4.4-Lite > handles: > 1. MBUFS Very little, although we would like to do a lot more if only we had the time and energy. > 2. Routing and the radix tree code There is significant on-going work in this area. Your best bet would be to grab the related sources from -current (ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src) and compare. If there's anything you want to ask about in particular, I'd be happy to talk about it either e-mail or voice. > 3. The general framework for adding other network subsystems > in FreeBSD 2.0. I'm not really sure what you mean here. As far as adding other network address/protocol families, this is basically the same, but we hope to have it change soon, probably in the 2.2 release cycle, to allow them to be dynamically loaded. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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