From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 6 11:19:16 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA11057 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:19:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from papagaio.voga.com.br (papagaio.voga.com.br [200.239.39.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id LAA11052 for ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 11:19:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: by papagaio.voga.com.br(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.06 (346.7 3-18-1997)) id 032564EB.0064F7EB ; Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:22:50 -0300 X-Lotus-FromDomain: VOGA From: "Daniel Sobral" To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <032564EB.00643CF0.00@papagaio.voga.com.br> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 1997 15:19:14 -0300 Subject: Hot swappable kernels Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.