Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 21:17:40 -0500 From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel Hacking (i tried not to make it lame) Message-ID: <20010127211740.C33416@electricjellyfish.net> In-Reply-To: <20010127180935.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:09:35PM -0800 References: <xzpg0i5gfi7.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0101271050440.4161-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov> <20010127180935.O26076@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 06:09:35PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Ronald G Minnich <rminnich@lanl.gov> [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
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