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Releasing a Protocol

 

Once you have debugged and tuned a new protocol, you can make it available for others to use by creating a new directory in

/usr/xkernel/protocols, copying your source files into that directory, creating a makefile in that directory, and modifying the makefile in /usr/xkernel/protocols. If your protocol is a device driver, instead put the source files in

/usr/xkernel/user_level/platforms/PLATFORM/drivers, where

PLATFORM is one of sunos, solaris, osf1,

irix, or linux.

If you want to make your new protocol available to other sites, then make a tar file of your protocol available and drop a note to

xkernel-help@cs.arizona.edu. We will include your protocol in the next release. You should also create a ``man page'' for you protocol similar to those found in the Appendix. The source files for these man pages are in /usr/xkernel/doc/manual/protocols.



Larry Peterson
Wed Jan 10 10:40:08 MST 1996