Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 21:12:45 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Urs Schroffenegger <urs-on-mailinglists@lampshade.ch> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20060208021244.GA14826@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <43E9463C.6000001@lampshade.ch> References: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> <20060208005552.GA13426@xor.obsecurity.org> <43E9463C.6000001@lampshade.ch>
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--WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:15:40AM +0100, Urs Schroffenegger wrote: > Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 10:48:05PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > >=20 > > > >>Hello, > >> > >>since Linux' support for some hardware is better than FreeBSD's, > >>it would be nice to have an *optional* way of running a FreeBSD > >>system (userland, including all third party programs) on top > >>of the Linux kernel. > >> > >>This would be somewhat the reverse of /boot/kernel/linux.ko, > >>some kind of adaptation layer between Linux kernel and our libc, > >>loader etc... > >> > >>If we had this feature (perhaps as a port), it would be > >>convenient to boot into Linux kernel when FreeBSD-non-supported > >>hardware is needed; of course keeping FreeBSD kernel as the > >>default, high-performance optimized one for all normal cases. > >> > >>Perhaps someone's already working on this, but I can't find > >>any hints or pointers to it. > >> =20 > >> > > > >There's a debian project to do this, but it's not likely anything that > >will be merged into FreeBSD (let alone available as a port). > > > >Kris > >=20 > > > IMHO, the debian project seems to be exactly the inverse of that: a=20 > freebsd kernel with GNU userland. (More info here:=20 > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/) Sorry, you're right. I don't know of anyone working on the OP's project. Kris --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD6VOcWry0BWjoQKURAiJwAKCDN3P+NGYWQmWMHlxfdCmNXyEhCQCgooPk l/K0u2SqGfj65KyBBVqFqCc= =rPnC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --WIyZ46R2i8wDzkSu--
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