From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 11 17:22:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gateway.symark.com (firewall.symark.westlake.iswest.net [207.178.203.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C723C37B400; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:22:36 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mailer@localhost) by gateway.symark.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id RAA17294; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:22:30 -0800 Received: from camel.symark.com(128.1.1.97) by gateway.symark.com via smap (V2.1+anti-relay+anti-spam) id xma017290; Thu, 11 Jan 01 17:22:11 -0800 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:24:54 -0800 Message-ID: <01C07BF3.695D3780.ggross@symark.com> From: Glen Gross Reply-To: "ggross@symark.com" To: "'Alfred Perlstein'" , Carl Makin Cc: "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Running Linux kernel modules. Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:24:52 -0800 Organization: Symark Software X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Is there a possibility of a generalized interface where any linux kernel module could be loaded, in the event that the linux emulator were loaded? Or would this require running the linux kernel in RAM, and therefore running two virtual machines? On Thursday, January 11, 2001 3:12 PM, Alfred Perlstein [SMTP:bright@wintelcom.net] wrote: > * Carl Makin [010111 14:52] wrote: > > > > There are a couple of linux kernel modules that I'd love to run under > > FreeBSD. I've always assumed that I'd have to rewrite them substantially > > to make that happen. > > > > Can anyone give me some pointers on how hard it could be to port a linux > > kernel module to FreeBSD? > > Depends on how familiar you are with kernel internals, for instance > after taking a quick look at the kernel module needed to run vmware > it was pretty clear that someone with the experience and time could > have it done in under a week, about 2 weeks later some maniac ( :) ) > surfaced who had done just that. > > -- > -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] > "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message Glen M. Gross Unix Technical Support Specialist Symark Software 5716 Corsa Avenue, Suite 200 Westlake Village, CA 91362 http://www.symark.com pp-support@symark.com pb-support@symark.com Main: 800-234-9072 or 818-865-6100 Main fax: 818-889-1894 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message