Remember that technology exists, usually for some time, and often in a completely usable state before it makes it to RELENG. http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/

Remember that technology exists, usually for some time, and often in a completely usable state before it makes it to RELENG. http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/zec_presentation.pdf http://2002.eurobsdcon.org/papers/zec_presentation.pdf Hell, you can even still download the freebsd 4 patch from archive.org: http://web.archive.org/web/20030523110842/http://www.tel.fer.hr/zec/BSD/vimage/index.html http://web.archive.org/web/20030523110842/http://www.tel.fer... It's all over mailing archives from that era, too. I mean, I'm not saying I'm a kernel programmer... but I'm not an idiot; I can apply out of tree patches.