On Tue, Aug 07, 2007 at 11:16:28AM +0200, Ian McIntosh wrote:
> Are there any implications with taking a netBSD 4 kernel and the 
> associated lkms and using it in a system that has otherwise been 
> compiled with netBSD 3.

Yes, certain things e.g. ipf(8) will break.

> and if so will it work reliably?

It depends on what you are doing. It should be good enough for booting
up the machine to check whether the kernel works.

> Has anyone done something like this before?

Yes, but not me.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/