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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!not-for-mail From: sef@Kithrup.COM (Sean Eric Fagan) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: BPF package Date: 12 Mar 1993 12:48:28 -0800 Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ltd. Lines: 24 Sender: sef@ftp.UU.NET Message-ID: <1nqsusINNksi@ftp.UU.NET> References: <C3sDK2.DE@agora.rain.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ftp.uu.net In article <C3sDK2.DE@agora.rain.com> davidg@agora.rain.com (David Greenman) writes: >I know that at least a dozen >people have successfully installed this in their kernel, so it shouldn't >be too much trouble for experianced kernel hackers. Not *too* much trouble or experience is really necessary. I am running a pretty unstandard kernel, in some ways, and most of the patches installed cleanly. A couple were unnecessary, since the patchkit duplicated some of them. David's instructions were complete enough to get it all installed, without hassle. The only conflict I really ran into was the major numbers for the bpf device; the patchkit has space reserved for it, but at a different number than david's patches. (I didn't bother putting bpf into the MAKEDEV script, though; I probably should.) Thanks to David; it worked the first time I tried it. Oh: if you isntall BPF, you will probably want the improved microtime() patches, available from ftp.lbl.gov. Personally, I think you want them anyway, but I just like having gettimeofday() return a correct value :).