On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:18:38 +0100 Sevan / Venture37 <venture37_at_gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > Ryan Stone got a chance to give a brief talk at the dtrace.conf last > week where he covered the status of support on FreeBSD. > http://smartos.org/2012/04/09/dtrace-conf-2012-dtrace-on-freebsd/ > > I was wondering if the reason outlined by Ryan for why it DTrace > isn't switched on by default still hold true (licensing issue) or is > it just the case that it was forgotten about? I ask as It would be > nice to have DTrace on FreeBSD by default. As far as I remember the issue was that some people (maybe in behalf of companies) expressed their concern if the GENERIC kernel does not come with BSD-license-only code. For this reason jb_at_ worked on the KDTRACE_HOOKS code. What we need now is a verification, that this part of DTRACE is not "CDDL-infected". There was an internal discussion, triggered by the talk you mentioned above. A part (the simple one) of the code has been reviewed. Anyone interested in getting KDTRACE_HOOKS enabled by default is free to do an independent review and post it here. Bye, Alexander. -- http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander _at_ Leidinger.net: PGP ID = B0063FE7 http://www.FreeBSD.org netchild _at_ FreeBSD.org : PGP ID = 72077137Received on Sat Apr 14 2012 - 12:00:45 UTC
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