[coyotos-dev] Coyotos License Policy?

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 10:34 -0400, Jeroen Visser wrote:

> Exception: currently the 3 IPI functions in my patch are lifted from
> *BSD. I intend to replace these with proper Coyotos-derived IPI code
> when I've figured out how the interrupt handling will look on SMP. I
> need a more advanced IPI subsystem for TLB shootdowns and cross-CPU
> coordination anyway.

Cool. We should exchange some email about how the IPI mechanism needs to
work in Coyotos. JWA is out of town until tomorrow, and he needs to
participate in this.

> In consequence, the SMP code will probably have bugs and shortcomings
> that are no(t) longer present in Linux and *BSD :)
> 
> Is that acceptable?

Yes, but please document the bugs so that we can call them features. :-)

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