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Subject: Re: whats COMPAT_LINUX for?
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On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:47:19PM -0700 or thereabouts, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 03:19:36PM -0700, marlon corleone wrote:
> > whats COMPAT_LINUX for in NOTES, cant find man pages
> > about this. and also is it ok if to remove from kernel
> > config this two lines:
> 
> (freebsd-isp removed since this is off-topic for there).
> 
> It compiles in Linux binary compatibility, also available as the
> linux.ko kernel module.
> 
> > device          scbus           # SCSI bus (required)
                                               ^^^^^^^^^^
> > device           da
> > 
> > since i have ni scsi device
> 
> Yes (you'll have to remove any other devices that depend on SCSI
> support, e.g. umass).

Eh? `da' can be removed, but I seem to remember some kernel compile
failures from no `scbus'.

-- Josh

> 
> Kris