From owner-freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Thu May 12 12:48:13 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58594B2F606 for ; Thu, 12 May 2016 12:48:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atar.yosef@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wm0-x234.google.com (mail-wm0-x234.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c09::234]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E327C1F25 for ; Thu, 12 May 2016 12:48:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from atar.yosef@gmail.com) Received: by mail-wm0-x234.google.com with SMTP id n129so258000328wmn.1 for ; Thu, 12 May 2016 05:48:12 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=subject:delivered-to:from:message-id:date:to :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; bh=IvhYIX3twkltWNQrNB25rCiEDy111wxGS8sHdeKtRxA=; b=Ux1Tkk3NdnhMOysbqyG6E8iX+6qsKVrWv2O96pXzZ9KfjB5zPpkBhP3YI1BwQ+y/lt Sy4iGsWGvcZivE5B0083LJVpORAvHp+GMCAitQnYmiHQR3m7nO9cKsW54RxowbwhGNLg 7Kf7YwJakZRhUC8Hc0/Ppk+9SO/vBOmJctZ+zKFmN2VYtg2/V1K1dyn7cwOQhpGQkjIY 2CxdgQOjvFXAgQOOyKnbZb5rps0h4yv/CRKTelgbuLm2fUCqlkEsslOB9Nu2JxNeGBff zeyvXRZlkXDk0LzlsbLLGxOxmLHUDDNSjS9y0AiYSyNQGWkKuE7t1918jkS1aB1mXoic 3BlQ== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:delivered-to:from:message-id:date:to :content-transfer-encoding:mime-version; bh=IvhYIX3twkltWNQrNB25rCiEDy111wxGS8sHdeKtRxA=; b=dm+sAT8kqIscvW6X2TBYhXHZsTJAJ3n1AdXKmOX16MbA/MVpaeSsgvT3t7V4IkxTn8 7EdsyUfB8Nwnx9nGFz/BiRG4u9kfm8OXM2SiCUXRGCuSCDMHKYCThZosvDDxjhuH+raW u4KT+27r6xRxk0iu8cT9L9jSHAYGb3EmGT5DrPyF62JZWlt5PdoXe4QBkyXqwbrFwdPa PvfTeI/OhRuTKq9LPtROVeSCqhTzY44Mt8s/4Dr8jBYjPj7eAlz0QZfxCcT2MvPIaf+q iSKAaZpzG3Grhbg0DzKgE7FHQzogJcv0nQ51LzUjCGzkirNIwqsWvZDx8K1fupDM6af0 /E9w== X-Gm-Message-State: AOPr4FWFHN3FI6sbyyH52GqtgXML2dxOxEF30joA//9lH9+28851qVxa+pQS0fWhZE+dFw== X-Received: by 10.194.26.41 with SMTP id i9mr10894583wjg.114.1463057291478; Thu, 12 May 2016 05:48:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.20.5] ([212.29.194.245]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id yr1sm13283199wjc.9.2016.05.12.05.48.07 for (version=TLS1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Thu, 12 May 2016 05:48:10 -0700 (PDT) Subject: maximum Linux kernel version supported by FreeBSD. Delivered-To: atar.yosef@gmail.com From: Atar Received: by 10.176.1.119 with HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2016 23:35:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: iPod Mail (10B500) Message-Id: Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 15:48:03 +0300 To: "freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.22 X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 May 2016 12:48:13 -0000 Hi there, as per of the following article: https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/lin= ux-emulation/article.html under the section number 5.2, the author of the ar= ticle says that the Linux kernel which they work to emulate it in FreeBSD is= the 2.6 kernel version. he also stated there that setting the "compat.linux= .osrelease" via sysctl to another values than 2.6 influence only on the vers= ion number which is outputted by the uname command. my question is if there is a plan to add support to emulation of the Linux k= ernel of higher Linux kernels like 4.5.x with all of the features of those k= ernel versions. it is to say, when one will set the "compat.linux.osrelease"= to version 4.5.1 for instance, it will not only affect the version that is o= utputted by uname but rather will enable all the new features of the 4.5.x k= ernels if any. Regards, atar.=