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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:24:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
To:        Charles Burns <burnscharlesn@hotmail.com>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Make world without reboot?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104260217580.25169-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
In-Reply-To: <F152jtrSByh133tYwli0000aa0d@hotmail.com>

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On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Charles Burns wrote:

:Hello all--
:
:Is it possible to do a make world (and have it take effect) without 
:rebooting? I can imagine that unloading the kernel and loading a new one 
:would be a programming challenge to say the least. Is such a thing possible 
:with FreeBSD?

No.  Such a thing is possible -- some Telco grade stuff can do this (Tandem
guardian, for one, I think).  You really need to have hardware support to do
this.  

-- 
dscheidt@tumbolia.com
Bipedalism is only a fad.


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