On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > Someone recently added an 'SMP' file to sys/i386/conf, which just > includes GENERIC, changes the 'ident' and then turns on the SMP > and APIC_IO options. Perhaps we should add a VMWARE one, with an > eye towards building a "vmware-appropriate" kernel that would be > available on the install CD's?
Or to fix this longer term, provide a way at run-time for a kernel to provide different code for the same purpose. Linux did this for the syscall (int 0x80 vs. syscall) instructions. I could see it being done for locking low-level operations as well. -Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
