From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 27 18:17:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from isris.pair.com (isris.pair.com [209.68.2.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E7D9237B400 for ; Sat, 27 Jan 2001 18:17:41 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 39304 invoked by uid 3130); 28 Jan 2001 02:17:40 -0000 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:17:40 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Ronald G Minnich , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame) Message-ID: <20010127211740.C33416@electricjellyfish.net> References: <20010127180935.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010127180935.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:09:35PM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:09:35PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ronald G Minnich [010127 09:52] wrote: > > > > I still think a really neat source for kernel hacking is Chuck Cranor's > > PhD thesis. He describes the kernel equivalent of open-heart surgery: > > replacing the old VM with a new one, while keep the kernel alive. Neat > > stuff. > > Interesting, for us too lazy to search, do you have a url handy? > or a place where copies can be purchased? http://www.ccrc.wustl.edu/pub/chuck I believe the paper he's talking about is "The Design and Implementation of the UVM Virtual Memory System", but I haven't had a chance to look at it yet (only had time to do a google search and bookmark it for future reference ;-) -- garrett rooney my pid is inigo montoya. rooneg@electricjellyfish.net you kill -9 my parent process. http://electricjellyfish.net/ prepare to vi. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message