You wrote (in your message from Sun 21)
 > On some platforms supported by NetBSD, rebuilding the kernel can take
 > more than a week.  There's no excuse for forcing people to suffer that
 > unnecessarily 

I'm in favour of a sysctl option for the autonice parameter.  

But, what about a "kernel link-kit" for NetBSD binary distributions ?
Having user-configurable parts of the kernel as source and all the
basic modules as pre-built objects (as in SunOS for example or in the
XFree86 server linkkit).


					Matthieu