From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 24 00:23:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E879516A401 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9BF413C465 for ; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:23:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from astrodog@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id f47so504431pye for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 17:23:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=K7INXBn+Q5juWQcIbX0aK6V2Ad6PgF94dwk+PSGiFZoa4xTpSRvJFZ6xT4oOqMt5jRe54lAmnx26TZGvs4nga16rllYUwZcHh6W4eRp07wL3qFLwFVreS0AaEWBbPOwhP8ELYTKTU3qX0DJ9I1fRDlE/eyzVa7EG+zTVPpNgbb0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=W5aJvM8oM8qeL5FQvtKdu+Vw4ieI9GJIqicH36h5aKyb3SPSEc8HXSoCb8Bgvu4yUSjqX1ctgS0FlpIgoMMFyRq8PWm6WuHRUUn3bK1pfCb6RMwBUy0cajDzdQTTdZUE9MrS7+6hyNKmaK2kUauekB4DIfGmS1YPLvMuXAlAQ1w= Received: by 10.35.84.16 with SMTP id m16mr6830553pyl.1174694173372; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:56:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.2? ( [70.128.108.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id y78sm9647821pyg.2007.03.23.16.56.11; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 16:56:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4604691A.7090606@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:56:10 -0500 From: Harrison Grundy User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20061027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD DTrace Headers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 00:23:28 -0000 Based on what I've read from John Birrell in various postings, it appears that the leading reason DTrace cannot be in GENERIC, or be made into a module, is the lack of BSD-licensed DTrace headers. As a result, it appears that the only way to allow FreeBSD DTrace to move forward is the creation of BSD-licensed headers, created from a description of what is needed from the Sun CDDL headers. So, I'm trying to find out who would be interested in documenting headers, and who would be interested in writing the new versions. I don't yet know exactly what will be involved in this, but it appears to me, that getting this done is really the only realistic way to get this done, as it appears Sun has not responded to requests to relicense the headers. If anyone else is interested in getting this done, or if anyone has some other ideas on how to get the same end result, I'd be most interested in hearing about it, --- Harrison Grundy