On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > Do You think for this project: http://www.ksplice.com/ ? > > On 1/1/09, Luigi Rizzo <rizzo_at_iet.unipi.it> wrote: >> I mentioned this utility a couple of months ago, and it's now working >> so i would like to receive feedback on whether this is good to have >> as part of the system, or just keep it as a port (which is what >> i plan to do by default). >> >> In a nutshell, the kmodpatch utility can print or alter the content >> of device/quirk tables in kernel modules (I think Linux has some >> similar tool, though i don't remember the name -- or perhaps it is >> a feature of insmod ?). >> Ksplice is not yet in the linux kernel tree, so it's probably not what Luigi was referring to. However, it is a pretty impressive piece of software, intended to apply security updates to a running kernel with a "hot-patch" approach. They give their latest status update here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/12/5/330 I like that they have the goal of following the entire stable tree, since it's not always clear which updates are security-related. Their work is currently licensed under a GPLv2, and they haven't thought very hard about whether they would be willing to relicense with a BSD license. (They're focusing their efforts on the Linux kernel, for the moment.) -Ben Kaduk (disclaimer: the Ksplice developers are friends of mine, so I heard most of this first-hand.)Received on Thu Jan 01 2009 - 23:39:43 UTC
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