Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2023 18:21:52 +0300 From: Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> To: George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Stupid Linux-on-FreeBSD question Message-ID: <CALH631nXFnRM2A4WQYy4ZLz7NXLu68DBO=jQYbwKH3L3aqiOYA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <de0ce608-f4c3-4170-a6a5-47166302da82@m5p.com> References: <de0ce608-f4c3-4170-a6a5-47166302da82@m5p.com>
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On Mon, Nov 6, 2023 at 5:35 PM George Mitchell <george+freebsd@m5p.com> wrote: > > For over twenty years, I've been able to avoid Linux pollution of my > FreeBSD systems, but the recent availability of Widevine DRM support > in Chromium caught my attention, and it looks like resistance may > possibly be futile. But in attempting to compile ports like > www/foreign-cdm and emulators/linux_base-c7, I get the impression that > I should have set linux_enable in my /etc/rc.conf even to compile them, > let alone run them. Is that correct? > > (A little more context: Yes, I am trying to avoid having a dedicated > Linux USB drive to be able to stream Widevine content.) -- George > For most linux ports - no, Linux binaries are just copied into /compat/linux. But for foreign-cdm - yes, as at runs Linux gcc to compile a Linux binary during the build.
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