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## <a name="Flux_OS_Toolkit"> Flux OS Toolkit </a>

[The OSKit](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/) is a framework and a set of libraries for building and extending operating systems developed by [the Flux Project](http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/).

## <a name="OSKit_2001_02_14"> </a> OSKit 2001-02-14

These are extra patches for people who, for some reason, use the 2001 version of the OSKit.

* Patrick Tullman [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-tullmandiffgz]]

* This patch is necessary to get the `--enable-indirect-osenv` flag to the configure script. The flag is enabled by default for OSKit 2002-03-17 and later. Kevin Kraemer [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-kkraemerdiffgz]]

## <a name="OSKit_2002_03_17"> </a> OSKit 2002-03-17

**_Critical Patches:_**

Here are the patches critical to get [[OskitMach]] running. These are absolutely essential to get a working Mach kernel. Many of these patches are included with the Debian distribution of the OSKit.

* Igor Khavkine [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-i_khavkidiffgz]]

* Famous removal of only one line in sbrk-hack.c - needed for people with newer libc's (e.g. Debian Woody) [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-sbrk_hackdiffgz]]

* Jonathan S. Arney - Important patch to diskpart library. Without it you cannot activate swap in oskit-mach. [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-jon_arneydiffgz]]

* Richard Kreuter's [patches](http://anduril.rutgers.edu/richard/oskit/) ([announcement](ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/oskit/mail/html/oskit-users/msg01560.html)). Needed when your Hurd partition is embedded inside an extended partition created by Windows. The patches also include:
  * support for extended partitions with lba
  * support for 16-entry BSD disklabels, as are supported by recent Net- and [[TWiki/FreeBSD]] kernels.
  * support for the recognition of NetBSD's slice id (169) in the BIOS partition table.

**_Cosmetic Patches:_**

* Kevin Kraemer - Removes annoying debug output from eepro.c driver. [[ATTACHURLpatch-oskit-097-eeprodiffgz]]

* Ognyan Kulev - Reduce warnings when compiling with GCC 3.2. <http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/oskit/>

**_New Functionality:_**

* [Roland McGrath](http://www.frob.com/) - [i8042 support](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-October/010682.html). Thread continues at <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-November/010866.html>

* Daniel Wagner - PCMCIA support. <http://www.vis.ethz.ch/~wagi/oskit/> ([instructions](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-November/010956.html))

* [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - See [[Hurd/JoachimNilssonHurdPage]]
  * Upgrade to Linux 2.2.22 drivers
  * More Linux NIC drivers
  * **_Soon:_** ATA-100 patches (α-release available)

* [[Main/DerekDavies]] - [OSKit Entropy patch](http://www.ddavies.net/oskit-entropy/). A Linux entropy driver, see [bug-hurd posting](http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2003-January/011155.html) for more information.

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## <a name="Comments"> Comments </a>

Divided this growing topic into sections. <br /> -- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] 19 Nov 2002

Updates by [[Main/OgnyanKulev]] -- 19 Nov 2002

All small patches are as attachments now. -- [[Main/OgnyanKulev]] - 16 Dec 2002

Minor updates, also, added Davids Entropy patch -- [[Main/JoachimNilsson]] - 03 Jan 2003