From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Wed Aug 24 12:53:55 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@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 EF395BC433C; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org (repo.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:6068::e6a:0]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B07B3164E; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ed@FreeBSD.org) Received: from repo.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.37]) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id u7OCrstc030059; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:54 GMT (envelope-from ed@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from ed@localhost) by repo.freebsd.org (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id u7OCrsSW030058; Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:54 GMT (envelope-from ed@FreeBSD.org) Message-Id: <201608241253.u7OCrsSW030058@repo.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: repo.freebsd.org: ed set sender to ed@FreeBSD.org using -f From: Ed Schouten Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:54 +0000 (UTC) To: src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r304748 - head/share/man/man4 X-SVN-Group: head MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:53:56 -0000 Author: ed Date: Wed Aug 24 12:53:54 2016 New Revision: 304748 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/304748 Log: Document the existence of the cloudabi32 kernel module. Modified: head/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 Modified: head/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 ============================================================================== --- head/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 Wed Aug 24 12:32:24 2016 (r304747) +++ head/share/man/man4/cloudabi.4 Wed Aug 24 12:53:54 2016 (r304748) @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Nuxi, https://nuxi.nl/ +.\" Copyright (c) 2015-2016 Nuxi, https://nuxi.nl/ .\" .\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without .\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions @@ -22,17 +22,25 @@ .\" SUCH DAMAGE. .\" .\" $FreeBSD$ -.Dd October 22, 2015 +.Dd August 24, 2016 .Dt CLOUDABI 4 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cloudabi , +.Nm cloudabi32 , .Nm cloudabi64 .Nd CloudABI support .Sh SYNOPSIS -Support for 64-bit CloudABI executables can be compiled into the kernel +Support for 32-bit CloudABI executables can be compiled into the kernel by adding this line to the kernel configuration file: .Bd -ragged -offset indent +.Cd "options COMPAT_CLOUDABI32" +.Ed +.Pp +Similarly, +support for 64-bit CloudABI executables can be enabled by adding this +line: +.Bd -ragged -offset indent .Cd "options COMPAT_CLOUDABI64" .Ed .Pp @@ -40,6 +48,7 @@ CloudABI support can also be loaded at b .Xr loader.conf 5 : .Bd -literal -offset indent cloudabi_load="YES" +cloudabi32_load="YES" cloudabi64_load="YES" .Ed .Sh DESCRIPTION @@ -52,19 +61,21 @@ and hardened against security exploits. .Pp Support for CloudABI on .Fx -consists of two separate kernel modules. +consists of three separate kernel modules. The .Nm cloudabi kernel module implements all of the system calls that do not depend on -data structures that differ between architectures. +data structures that differ between hardware architectures. .Pp The +.Nm cloudabi32 +and .Nm cloudabi64 -kernel module provides implementations of all of the machine-dependent -system calls. -It assumes that pointers stored in data structures provided as system -call arguments are 64 bits in size. -It also provides the image activator that loads and starts 64-bit ELF +kernel modules provide implementations of all of the machine-dependent +system calls, +assuming that pointers stored in data structures are either 32 bits or +64 bits in size. +These modules also provide the image activators that load and start ELF executables. .Pp Though the @@ -72,8 +83,12 @@ Though the module can be loaded on any architecture supported by .Fx , the +.Nm cloudabi32 +module is only available on i386 and amd64. +The same holds for the .Nm cloudabi64 -module is only available for amd64 and arm64. +module, +which is only available for amd64 and arm64. .Pp A full cross compilation toolchain for CloudABI is available in the .Pa devel/cloudabi-toolchain @@ -93,6 +108,9 @@ restricted set of resources. .Xr linux 4 , .Xr elf 5 .Pp +CloudABI for FreeBSD: +.Pa https://nuxi.nl/cloudabi/freebsd/ . +.Pp cloudlibc on GitHub: .Pa https://github.com/NuxiNL/cloudlibc . .Pp