From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Apr 24 22:17:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id WAA16329 for emulation-outgoing; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA16324 for ; Wed, 24 Apr 1996 22:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id OAA22988; Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:44:19 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199604250514.OAA22988@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Has anyone grabbed the dos patches? To: spaz@u.washington.edu (John Utz) Date: Thu, 25 Apr 1996 14:44:18 +0930 (CST) Cc: sef@kithrup.com, emulation@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "John Utz" at Apr 24, 96 09:24:24 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Utz stands accused of saying: > > Hi Sean; > > Mike's mail re patches implied the need for a ~current box. Is > this true? Has the kernel mutated to the point were this would be unusable > on a 2.1R box? With a bit of effort, you could probably mung the patches to fit a -stable kernel. Sef was working against a -current kernel and I didn't see any reason to fight it. Basically, look at the kernel diffs and see how hard it looks - there's not a lot of substance in it, just complexity 8) > John Utz spaz@u.washington.edu -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[