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From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: vkernel & GSoC, some questions
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On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 02:58:40PM +0200, Jordan Gordeev wrote:
> I am a student who considers applying for Google's Summer of Code
> programme.
> One of my ideas for a GSoC project has the following synopsis:
> 
>    Add virtual kernel (vkernel) support to FreeBSD for the i386 and amd64 
> architectures.
> 
> The vkernel support in question is the one found in DragonFlyBSD.

Not being up on DragonFlyBSD, can you better describe what "vkernel" is?

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