Subject: Re: Can I reconfigure the kernel with a binary editor?
To: Boris Gjenero <bgjenero@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
From: Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 01/28/1998 10:17:13
> Is there some way to reconfigure the kernel without recompiling?  I have
> a kernel that just needs to have the dhv-11 CSR and the root device
> changed.  It has a name list.  I really don't want to recompile becuase
> I don't have the space or kernel sources here.  I've found out about
> binpatch, but that is just in the Atari and Amiga ports.  I tried nm and
> emacs hexl-mode, but the values I found made no sense so I gave up.  I
> guess what I want is something like adb, but I don't see such a thing
> for NetBSD.  Any ideas?
> 
I myself uses adb for such things, but if you don't have access to
adb it should be possible to do the same thing with gdb.

-- Ragge