From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Nov 28 17:47:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4282137B400; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 17:47:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA16632; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:47:04 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id eAT1l4N82439; Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:47:04 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 20:47:04 -0500 (EST) To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, marcel@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Somebody broke the linux module on the Alpha. In-Reply-To: <3A245E45.B9CD44F7@cup.hp.com> References: <20001128163140.A43087@dragon.nuxi.com> <14884.23034.111469.296831@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <3A245E45.B9CD44F7@cup.hp.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14884.24258.132073.308507@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Marcel Moolenaar writes: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > The following patch "fixes" the problem, but I have no clue if it > > is safe for x86, buildworlds, etc: > > At this time the best fix is to remove the auto-generation. It also > allows us to compile the Linuxulator into the kernel, which I think is > necessary (what applies to i386, applies to Alpha as well. Otherwise the > Alpha would be nothing more than a secundary port). Excuse me? Why the preoccupation with compiling it into the kernel? What advantage is there to this? I see no reason for it to be "necessary" to compile it into the kernel. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message