From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 16:46:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811B916A422 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:46:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@planetshwoop.com) Received: from albright.psys.org (albright.psys.org [64.81.145.160]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0175643D58 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 16:46:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brian@planetshwoop.com) Received: from psys.org ([209.242.32.214] helo=webmail.psys.org ident=10ef415c047494d2453f548d186f9495) by albright.psys.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1F6sSo-0008Of-Qc; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:46:42 -0600 Received: from 4.17.250.5 (SquirrelMail authenticated user brian) by webmail.psys.org with HTTP; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:46:42 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <45698.4.17.250.5.1139417202.squirrel@webmail.psys.org> In-Reply-To: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> References: <20060207214805.GA9921@epia2.farid-hajji.net> Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:46:42 -0600 (CST) From: "Brian Sobolak" To: "cpghost" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [WISH] Linux kernel as drop-in replacement in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: brian@planetshwoop.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:46:44 -0000 cpghost wrote: > 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. If I'm not mistaken, this is basically what Apple has done with OSX. They started with a Mach kernel instead of Linux, but the userland is BSD. If you're not particular about the kernel, it might be an option for you. brian -- Brian Sobolak http://www.planetshwoop.com/