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Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2001 00:52:26 +0000
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Daniel Ridge <newt@scyld.com>
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Subject: Re: Will Mosix go into the standard kernel?
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Hi!

> The Scyld system is based on BProc -- which requires only a 1K patch to
> the kernel. This patch adds 339 net lines to the kernel, and changes 38
> existing lines.
> 
> The Scyld 2-kernel-monte kernel inplace reboot facility is a 600-line
> module which doesn't require any patches whatsoever.

There might be big difference in *complexity* of those patches. Distributions
only change "unimportant" stuff. And 600 lines module is not small, either..

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