From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Mar 14 9:26:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from atlrel1.hp.com (atlrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.210]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06AC337B6C8 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:26:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by atlrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697641211; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 12:26:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com with ESMTP (8.8.6 (PHNE_17135)/8.7.3 TIS 5.0.1) id JAA09899; Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:26:29 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <38CE7645.F59CB8DA@cup.hp.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 09:26:29 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.36 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMWare port(s) ... References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > Is anyone working on getting the rtc/linux_procfs ports brought into the > main stream, as well as the vmware port itself upgraded? Having a Linux compatible procfs for Linux binaries has been on my TODO list for some time. I'm not currently working on that, though. I personally prefer a procfs implementation that doesn't need to be loaded as a module, but is part of the Linuxulator itself and also uses /proc as the mount point. Such an implementation is less confusing (ie doesn't generate a stream of questions of which the answer is: "load linux_procfs" :-). The expected infrastructural changes in the kernel to have the proper procfs implementation depending on the ABI also helps other emulators. Such an approach seems beneficial... Thoughts, ideas or other comments? -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message