From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 26 14:31:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 363C637B401 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:31:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.ac-net.at (secure.ac-net.at [212.24.125.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B8A43FB1 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 14:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shammer@daemon.li) Received: from mail.ac-net.at (server.ac-net.at [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ac-net.at (AC-net Mailserver v1.3a) with SMTP id 9245D3F64 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:31:34 +0100 (CET) Received: from daemon.li (dsl-156-42.utaonline.at [62.218.156.42]) by mail.ac-net.at (AC-net Mailserver v1.3a) with SMTP id 00AE63F58 for ; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 22:31:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1574 invoked from network); 26 Feb 2003 22:34:11 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO daemon.li) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Feb 2003 22:34:11 -0000 Received: (from shammer@localhost) by daemon.li (8.12.6/8.12.7/Submit) id h1QMYAX6001572 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:34:10 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from shammer) Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 23:34:10 +0100 From: Josef El-Rayes To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: kernel design questions Message-ID: <20030226223410.GA1506@daemon.li> Reply-To: j.el-rayes@daemon.li Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Reply-Path: j.el-rayes@daemon.li X-Mailer: FreeBSD Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi! i was looking for some kernel documentation and i had to find out it was justas the words say it "use the source luke". so i just want ask whether the freebsd kernel can be called a monolithic kernel? as far as i understood a monolithic kernel is just one big binary that does not get modified during beeing loaded into memory and as freebsd is able to load modules into kernel during runtime its not monolithic anymore? greets, josef -- www: http://www.daemon.li nic-hdl: JER1080312-NICAT To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message