Experimental FreeBSD and Linux kernel source cross reference web site

From: Robert Watson (rwatson_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 10/30/03

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    Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:18:51 -0500 (EST)
To: hackers@FreeBSD.org

    In the past when browsing the Linux source code, I've made extensive use
    of the Linux Cross-Reference (LXR) hosted at lxr.linux.no. This web site
    provides a cross-referenced and searchable HTML interface to the Linux
    source code; you can perform freetext and identifier searches, check
    differences between revisions, etc. For FreeBSD, we provide a cvsweb
    interface that is extremely useful for tracking changes, but a little less
    useful for "raw browsing" when you're looking for use of an identifier. In
    the past, CMU's PDL (and possibly others) have provided FreeBSD
    cross-reference web pages, but I was unable to find one once that site
    went down. As such, I've experimentally set up the LXR software with
    access to several branches of the FreeBSD source code, as well as 2.4 and
    2.6 Linux kernels at:

        http://fxr.watson.org/

    This is experimental, but I've found it to be quite useful for my own
    work. I'm intermittently synchronizing the checked out snapshots to CVS.
    LXR is a useful piece of software, but not designed to handle multiple
    source code collections so well (i.e., currently isn't a good candidate
    for all of src). On the other hand, making the source code more easy to
    search and browse is a very useful thing, so feel free to give it a spin
    :-). I'll probably keep tweaking and playing with the configuration, as
    well as put more revisions of the Linux source online, probably drop in an
    OpenBSD, NetBSD, or DFBSD snapshot or two, etc, soon also. I don't
    promise it will be there tomorrow, but if it proves useful and
    interesting, it probably will be :-).

    Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
    robert@fledge.watson.org Network Associates Laboratories

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