Subject: nathanw_sa 20020215
To: BSD Current Users <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: None <salil.kumar@attbi.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/21/2002 00:47:01
Hi,

Did anybody install 20020215-nathanw_sa. I am not able to
install this snapshot. It seems kernel.tgz is missing.

Any suggestionswhere I can get it ?

-Salil
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>Some people were interested in playing with scheduler
>activations being developed on the nathanw_sa branch.
>You can find a snapshot of the branch for i386 at:

>ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/20020215-nathanw_sa/

>Don't bother installing this snapshot on a production
>machine.  However, some testing under load would be
>useful.  Please read the README file first.

>The snapshot provides the necessary toolchain and
>libc/libsyscall changes in order to track the branch.
>From here, updates to libc/libsyscall and the kernel
>should be (relatively) easy to track.

>The snapshot also contains my custom hacks to libkvm
>and its dependent system utilities (top, ps, w, uptime).
>Their output is sometimes bogus.

>Finally, big thumbs-up to Nathan for all his hard work!

>        -- Gregory McGarry <g.mcgarry@ieee.org>