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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2015 23:56:30 -0700
From:      "K. Macy" <kmacy@freebsd.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org, John-Mark Gurney <jmg@funkthat.com>, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>,  "freebsd-testing@freebsd.org" <freebsd-testing@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: compiling parts of kernel in userland
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On Jun 10, 2015 11:53 PM, "Garrett Cooper" <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> (Adding -testing because this pertains to testing)
>
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 23:48, K. Macy <kmacy@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> > I started work on something I called libukern which allows you to run
> > essentially all non platform code in user adding a PCI passthrough
driver
> > so one can run unmodified drivers in user. Libuinet is great as far as
it
> > goes, but it's just the network stack. If you want something other than
> > just networking you'll have to do something else.
>
> If I had enough time and interest I=E2=80=99d look at investing my effort=
s in
porting RUMP from NetBSD to FreeBSD and going about it that route, but I=E2=
=80=99m
busy with other efforts so I can=E2=80=99t dedicate my time here yet. It se=
ems like
RUMP is the direction we should be going in=E2=80=A6

I looked at that first before starting a predecessor to uinet. You'll just
have to trust me: no, it's not.

-K



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