vkernel & GSoC, some questions
Kris Kennaway
kris at FreeBSD.org
Mon Mar 17 01:43:28 UTC 2008
Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Finally, the way vkernels were implemented in dragonfly was *very*
> :disruptive to the kernel source (lots of function renaming etc), so it
> :is likely that this would also have to be completely reimplemented in a
> :FreeBSD port.
> :...
> :Kris
>
> Well, I don't think I would agree with your assessment but,
> particularly, the way vkernels are implemented in DragonFly is NOT
> in the least disruptive to kernel source.
I was referring to the decision you made to rename all of the kernel
functions that conflicted with libc functions so that vkernels could be
linked against libc.
Kris
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