From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Apr 5 18:25:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA16033 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:25:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp02.primenet.com (smtp02.primenet.com [206.165.6.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA15979 for ; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:25:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp02.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08709; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:25:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp02.primenet.com, id smtpd008675; Sun Apr 5 18:25:12 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id SAA09720; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 18:25:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199804060125.SAA09720@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Softupdate for 2.2.6? To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 01:25:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: tom@sdf.com, tlambert@primenet.com, jkh@time.cdrom.com, luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, frank@our.domaintje.com, tcobb@staff.circle.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199804052258.PAA00553@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty" at Apr 5, 98 03:58:47 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > If patches were provided, say for soft updates, would they be > > > integrated, or would thy have to remain "third party"? > > > > Would said patches work? > > > > Softupdates in current does not work. Someone would have to pull quite > > the rabbit out of their hat to get softupdates to work in 2.2.x before > > current. > > Not so sure about that . -current has had quite a few VM changes in it. I think this is very true; this is pretty much what I was alluding to with my question. I think -stable would be an easy port, if someone were familiar with the OpenBSD code and wanted to take a stab at it. Most of the work is in the interaction with the VM system. 2.2.x would not be a picnic; some of the assumptions already being corrected for in the -current port are based on a unified VM and buffer cache model, which is present is -stable, as well. But it's cwertainly not outside the realm of possibility for an undergraduate student who has half a year of independent study to do something with, and no idea what to tackle. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message