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| author | stacktic <stacktic@pkgsrc.org> | 2013-05-01 17:16:05 +0000 |
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| committer | stacktic <stacktic@pkgsrc.org> | 2013-05-01 17:16:05 +0000 |
| commit | 91aa7e7f5ce55db65d1ddeb50fbe9c7d72a5f8fc (patch) | |
| tree | d20134071d00de55cdb84bf3f89d3688eff347e2 /misc/rump/DESCR | |
| parent | 4538b138f0196bc1bc00f48ee9c7d357b3a7c543 (diff) | |
| download | pkgsrc-91aa7e7f5ce55db65d1ddeb50fbe9c7d72a5f8fc.tar.gz | |
Update misc/rump and filesystems/fs-utils to 20130430 to use github versions
which are available respectively at
https://github.com/anttikantee/buildrump.sh and
https://github.com/stacktic/fs-utils
Diffstat (limited to 'misc/rump/DESCR')
| -rw-r--r-- | misc/rump/DESCR | 13 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/misc/rump/DESCR b/misc/rump/DESCR index 7573cd75d41..307efeb0148 100644 --- a/misc/rump/DESCR +++ b/misc/rump/DESCR @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ -This package provides file system driver support for the -filesystems/fs-utils package using vintage 2009 NetBSD. - -Newer versions are available by checking out the entire NetBSD source -and using buildrump.sh (https://github.com/anttikantee/buildrump.sh) +Rump (Runnable Userspace Meta Program) is a mechanism for running kernel code +as part of a user program's address space. As opposed to executing system calls +for requesting kernel services, rump programs do a library call into the kernel +code for equivalent functionality. Kernel code is simply recompiled as a +userspace shared library from the kernel sources instead of being rewritten, +so services imitate the same services being provided by the kernel. Select +architectures such as i386 and amd64 also support directly linking binary +kernel modules against rump programs. |