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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!otis.apana.org.au!serval.net.wsu.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!oracle.pnl.gov!osi-east2.es.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!pipex!uunet!heifetz.msen.com!zib-berlin.de!rs1-hrz.uni-duisburg.de!news.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de!wolfgang.mueller From: wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Config change by patching FreeBSD kernel binary possible ? Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 13:59:57 GMT Organization: Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany Lines: 11 Message-ID: <wolfgang.mueller.515.789659997@uni-duesseldorf.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: mueller.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de A very fine feature of the FreeBSD 2.0R bootfloppy kernel is the -c option, which allows to adapt IRQs, IO addresses, and other parameters in the booted kernel to the physical reality. Now after finding out the right reconfiguration it would be even finer, if there were a kernel binary patch utility to make these changes permanent without the need for a recompilation of the kernel, so that for later bootups from a harddisk the -c option need not be repeated. Would that be possible, does that utility perhaps exist already ? Just an idea, Wolfgang R. Mueller <wolfgang.mueller@uni-duesseldorf.de>, Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.