From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat Dec 18 3:32:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 758) id D687014DE2; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:32:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B45161CD79D; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:32:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@hub.freebsd.org) Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 03:32:24 -0800 (PST) From: Kris Kennaway To: tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading linux.ko? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 17 Dec 1999, Tobias Ernst wrote: > there an easiy way to update *only* the linux.ko kernel module without > having to do a full cvsup and make world to get to FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE? > I don't want to touch the base system currently, but an updated Linux > emulator would be great. > Upgrading just the linux KLD may not work if it depends on an updated kernel as well. Updating your kernel too may break things like ps if there have been changes to the kvm interface. Or it may not: you could always save your old module/kernel, update them and see if it works, and drop back to the old ones if not. It shouldn't cause any damage other than certain binaries not working (at worst). cvsup your kernel sources and rebuild the appropriate bit (sys/modules/linux or the usual procedure for rebuilding the kernel) Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message