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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:19:14 -0300
From:      "Daniel Sobral"<Daniel_Sobral@voga.com.br>
To:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Hot swappable kernels
Message-ID:  <032564EB.00643CF0.00@papagaio.voga.com.br>

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> I can't imagine how you would start to do such a thing with UNIX.  The
closest you could > come to it would be to split most of the kernel into
> LKMs, and change them.  But there's a basic conflict of concept
> between keeping a kernel running (even if it's no longer the same
> kernel) and booting a kernel.

I suppose Fluke/Flux could do it. I don't have the links for them at hand
right now, though. But unless you do it from
the start, and that's *not* the case with FreeBSD, the amount of work just
wouldn't be worth it.






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