Planned availability of SGI kdb and lkcd in future 2.4 vendor dis tributions

[Keith Owens]

On Thu, 7 Sep 2000 06:40:26 -0700 , 
"Howell, David P" <david.p.howell at intel.com> wrote:
>Is there any plans for a vendor, like Red Hat, to pick up the kdb and lkcd
>work for inclusion in a 
>2.4 (or 2.2, although I doubt there will be since the focus appears to be on
>2.4 kernels)? Seems 
>like they would fit nicely into a vendor's serviceability/support story, to
>supplement functionality 
>that is now missing. 

lkcd is now maintained outside SGI, on sourceforge, I cannot speak for
them.  I am going to make one more try at persuading Linus to include
kdb in the base kernel (2.4 only) but I don't expect to succeed.  Then
I plan to contact the distributors.