Re: Converting from Linux

From: Simon Barner (barner_at_in.tum.de)
Date: 12/02/03 

Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 02:27:22 +0100

>> As long as only user land applications are involved, you are of
>> course able to do the upgrade without a reboot. As soon as the
>> kernel is patched, also Linux will need to be rebooted (except for
>> the cases where a kernel modules is affected only, but that's again
>> the same situation on FreeBSD).
>
> Actually they're working on a mechanism in Linux where one kernel can
> load another. So once you compile and install a new kernel you'll be
> able to load it up. Of course there are security issues with this.
>
> I don't know if it made it into the 2.6 series, or whether it'll be
> the next round of upgrades.

Of course this is off-topic in this group, but anyway (out of technical
interest): Do you have any pointers on that? Since I don't even know the
name of that mechanism, a Google search yielded nothing.

Cheers,
 Simon

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