From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 29 19:34:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA27037 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:34:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA27022 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 19:34:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id MAA24918; Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:55 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704300233.MAA24918@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A Desparate Plea for Help... In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Apr 29, 97 09:00:19 am" To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:03:54 +0930 (CST) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, julian@whistle.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying: > > So building a kernel should be: > > cd /usr/src/sys/compile/WHATEVER && make && make install && cd > /usr/src/lkm... Only if you've update your kernel sources. > How does one then maintain several kernel versions without going mad? > In Linux (sorry), one has /lib/modules/X.y.z.... and a current symlink that > actualy gets created at boot time by some clever awking of /proc/version. I normally ensure that development kernels don't use LKMs; if I need stuff I'll pull it in statically. Generally a development kernel will be extremely aggressively stripped down to minimise possible conflicts. > My activity? Create noise about threads. My server engineer tells me they > are broken. how is that? Which threads? Are we talking about the pthread code? It has an owner and I'm sure he's waiting for bug reports 8) > Simon -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[