On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 11:19:53PM +0000, Christopher Brown wrote:
>I understand Microsoft has patented this technology so it is currently
>no-go for inclusion.
[jwboyer@hansolo ~]$ koji latest-pkg dist-f11 ksplice
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ksplice-0.9.7-3.fc11 dist-f11 s4504kr
[jwboyer@hansolo ~]$ koji latest-pkg dist-f11 fedora-ksplice
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fedora-ksplice-0.5-5.fc11 dist-f11 s4504kr
[jwboyer@hansolo ~]$
josh
Then Linux shouldn't be compiled using kmods and instead as a
monolithic binary, since kernel modules fall under the patent.
Besides, there are tons of prior art on it. KSplice is a good
technology that could possibly be integrated in. fedora-ksplice is
only build scripts for the kernel it looks like. ksplice
is there as a package, but what about the GNOME frontend? The screenshot for
ksplice in Ubuntu looks like PackageKit, so maybe it would be possible to
integrate ksplice into PackageKit/yum so that rebooting for updates would be
unnecessary.